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17.06.25 - 04:42
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NeoSmelt welcomes Federal Government support and signs two new participants for groundbreaking steel decarbonisation project (Business Wire)
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PERTH, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NeoSmelt, a consortium of leading resources, energy and manufacturing companies working together on ways to produce lower-emissions steel1 from Pilbara iron ore, welcomes Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) support for its planned Western Australian pilot plant.
The consortium, founded by BlueScope, BHP and Rio Tinto also welcomes two new equity participants – Woodside Energy and Mitsui Iron Ore Development – to the NeoSmelt joint venture, with the five participants taking equal equity stakes in the joint venture.
NeoSmelt, which is managed by BlueScope, plans to develop Australia's largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace2 (ESF) pilot plant at the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, to demonstrate a method to produce lower-carbon emissions molten iron from Western Australian iron ore.
ARENA has committed A$19.8 million to support a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for the NeoSmelt project, which aims to prove Pilbara iron ore can be used to...
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