Green steel in Chinese: the steel industry is massively switching to ultra-low emissions
The Chinese Metallurgical Association (CISA) is confident that 80% of the country's steel production capacity will be upgraded with ultra-low emissions by the end of 2025, according to Mysteel Global.
This goal was originally set in a related official document published in 2019, which launched China's campaign to promote ultra-low emissions in the steel industry. The standards for metrocombinations provide for the limitation of pollutant emissions throughout the entire production process, including requirements for raw materials and vehicles.
According to CISA, as of April 20 of this year, about 591 million tons of steelmaking capacity owned by 141 Chinese steel producers have reached full ultra-low emissions, and 169 million tons of capacity owned by 47 other manufacturers have reached partial levels.
In April of this year, the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and the Environment of China for the first time published technical specifications for ultra-low emission exhaust gas engineering of the sintering process in ferrous metallurgy, in March, the steel industry, as well as aluminum and cement production sectors were officially included in the national carbon emissions trading market. Currently, the latter covers more than 500 key subjects of emissions in metallurgy.