Green Metals

The Green Metals Group works with metals industries, supply chains and innovators to develop technologies, materials, processes, and knowledge to decarbonise, de-fossilise and reduce the environmental impact of metals production, and to optimise recycling opportunities. The Group accelerates the emergence of sustainable ‘Green’ metals industries.

Green Metals

Capabilities

The Green Steel Centre’s electric steelmaking pilot plant provides practical scalable research and a proving ground for technologies and processes developed through our laboratories. This ranges from AI scrap characterisation and novel feedstock evaluations, to steelmaking innovations in low carbon, low nitrogen Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steels, and synergy with cement materials from slags.

Complementing this is expertise and equipment to research iron ore reduction including hydrogen DRI, natural gas DRI, blast furnace.

Scrap characterisation, blending and bulk metal recycling innovation is a cross-cutting theme across the ferrous and non-ferrous sectors, utilising practical engineering knowhow as well as human-assisted artificial intelligence (AI).

Non- ferrous green metal production and recycling is further supported by expertise in the critical raw materials and energy and process decarbonisation groups.

Benefits

  • Realise 90-100% reductions in Scope 1/2/3 CO2 emissions
  • Impartial CAPEX project feasibility and debottlenecking to improve investment decisions
  • Minimise delivery time of projects and product commercialisation
  • Minimise end-to-end energy and material consumption costs
  • Real-world tested value-in-use data for feedstock

Services

  • Roadmap creation and optimisation for the pathway to ‘green’ steel and other products
  • Materials and process investigations for metal production furnaces
  • Technology scaleup - design, build, optimise, commercialise
  • Life cycle assessment
  • Bespoke electrical melting programmes

Facilities

Electric Arc Furnace, vacuum and air induction melting, casting and forming. Iron Ore reducibility rig including hydrogen DRI testing. Unique electrical rotary kiln with reducing atmosphere and microwave capabilities. Fully equipped materials development and materials characterisation centres.

CONTACT

To find out more about the Green Metals Group or to make an enquiry, please email enquiries@mpiuk.com