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Leading Indian Steel Producer SAIL Partners withPrimetals Technologies on Green Steel Transition atRourkela Plant

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Primetals Technologies to collaborate on green
steel projects and technology at steel plant in Rourkela, India
Important strategic move for the evaluation of decarbonization solutions across integrated
steel plant portfolio

On February 20th, Primetals Technologies and leading Indian steel producer Steel Authority of India
Limited (SAIL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to closely collaborate on projects andtechnologies related to decarbonization at the plant located in Rourkela, Odisha, India. The signingceremony took place at the executive director’s office of SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant.
SAIL’s Rourkela steel plant has a strong focus on decarbonization as one of its priorities in order tofuture-proof the production processes, and is therefore currently looking for solutions to lower its carbon
footprint. The partnership with Primetals Technologies is a key strategic move in this endeavour.
A full-fledged provider of green production solutions
Primetals Technologies is the market leader in environmental and energy-efficiency solutions for themetals industry and has established an organization dedicated to green steel technologies and thetransformation into a greener steel industry. Primetals Technologies will work closely with SAIL’s
Rourkela location, providing expertise across the green ironmaking and steelmaking value chain,including but not limited to carbon capture and utilization (CCU), digitalization, hydrogen-based steel
production, electric steelmaking, and advanced gas-cleaning solutions.
Leading plant building expertise“We are very happy to partner with SAIL and the Rourkela steel plant for its transition into green steel
production,” said Norbert Petermaier, Executive Vice President of Sales at Primetals Technologies. “Themetals industry is currently moving quickly in terms of efforts to decarbonize. As the global front runner,
Primetals Technologies will support and assist the SAIL Rourkela steel plant in the best possible way
based on our proven expertise in green ironmaking and steelmaking solutions. And, as part of the larger
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, we also have at our disposal profound knowledge in technologies
related to carbon capture and utilization.”“The SAIL Rourkela steel plant is happy to get associated with Primetals Technologies on our endeavor
to cut down the carbon emissions in order to meet our overall target of becoming net-carbon neutral,”said Sharad Raghunath Suryawanshi, Executive Director (Works) of SAIL’s Rourkela steel plant, on theoccasion of the MOU signing ceremony.
The SAIL Rourkela location is a leading steel plant in India and the world. The Rourkela facility alone hasan annual crude steel capacity of 4.2 million tons. The plant’s product portfolio is wide-ranging andcomprises: prime plates, hot rolled coils, cold rolled coils and sheets, galvanized sheets, cold rolled nonoriented (CRNO) electrical steel, electric resistance welded (ERW) pipes, spiral welded pipes, andspecial plates to serve the defense sector.

Representatives from SAIL and Primetals Technologies during the contract signing ceremony at theSAIL Rourkela steel plant, Odisha, India.

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Biswadeep Bhattacharjee, Vice President of Sales and Head of Green Steel India at Primetals
Technologies, and Sharad Raghunath Suryawanshi, Executive Director (Works) at SAIL’s Rourkela steelplant, during the contract signing ceremony.
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