Circular Steel for Mass Market Applications
Introducing scrap-based Electric Arc Furnace steel for a greener circular economy in mass-market sheet metal goods
CiSMA IN A NUTSHELL
Towards a greener and circular scrap-based steel production
The aim of CiSMA project is to introduce 100% recycled Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steel products into mass-market steel sheet consumer goods. This will contribute to cut CO2 emissions, boost circular economy and reduce EU’s foreign dependency on critical raw materials in key European sectors, such as the automotive, professional laundry equipment and other engineering industries.
CiSMA will maximize the use of post-consumer scrap by developing four 100% recycled sheet steel products produced in Electric Arc Furnace. To accomplish this will require improved knowledge about trace elements present in post-consumer scrap, and how to avoid their adverse effects on steel quality.
These materials will be demonstrated in a full value chain, from scrap to end users, with a toolbox of tests methodologies and Machine Learning-enhanced modelling tools. The steel developed will enable the integration of recycled EAF steel products in components from the automotive and commercial laundry solutions industries.
- Clean, climate-neutral steel
- Deployment of recycled products
- Reduction of EU dependency on foreign raw materials
- Key Enabling Technologies for digitalisation
ALIGNED WITH EUROPEAN NEEDS
Improving the EU steel sheet industry towards a greener society
Steel is one of the most used materials in the EU, feeding across almost all sectors, and particularly construction and automotive, but also engineering applications. Many consumer goods reaching the European public include steel parts, meaning that improving steel sustainability will ripple down the production chain.
The European steel industry is committed to global climate goals and aims to reduce CO2 emissions from production by at least 50% by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. This ambition will require profound change in the next two decades, and CiSMA offers competitive solutions.
75% reduced greenhouse gas emissions
Introducing EAF-produced steels will contribute to reducing CO2 emissions from production by more than 75% compared to traditional blast furnace process.
Up to 100% of scrap charges as raw materials
Up to 100% of scrap charges as raw materials CiSMA project will contribute to reduce EU foreign dependency on raw materials enhancing the reuse of raw materials present in ferrous scrap that currently is mainly exported outside the EU.
Boost circular economy
The four, 100% recycled, steel products developed in CiSMA will contribute to accomplish recycling goals and implement circular economy approaches, aligned with the ambitious recycling goals set by the European Commission.
“CiSMA will help to cut down emissions in steel production by more than 75 percent and use up to 100 percent scrap loads”
Jaume Pujante
CiSMA’s technical coordinator, Eurecat Technology Centre
Project approach
A full value chain for introducing more sustainable EAF-based recycled steels into the mass market
- Detailed analysis, including advanced characterisation: to determine safe residual thresholds for the production of recycled steels.
- Automated separation: to improve the quality and use of post-consumer scrap as a raw material.
- Toolbox of enabling technologies: new methodologies to maximise the use of scrap in new steel manufacturing processes, finite element modelling tools, digital twin and machine learning-based models.
- Mass-market use cases: to test the recycled steels into automotive and components for the industrial laundry equipment.
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