Environmental Commitment
Achieving GREEN Results
One of our key corporate objectives is environmental responsibility through minimizing emissions from MIDREX® plants and offering recycling options. Along with our project partners, we have designed and supplied facilities that are successfully operating under some of the strictest environmental standards in the world, including those of Germany, Canada, the United States and Japan.
MIDREX® Direct Reduction Plants are designed for 100% recycling of process gases and water to minimize emissions and maximize energy efficiency. Emission levels for the MIDREX® Process are lower than all applicable World Bank standards and plants can be designed to meet even stricter local regulations.
Since natural gas is a clean and abundant fuel, the MIDREX® Direct Reduction Process plays an important role in today’s environmentally focused steel industry, producing only one third the CO2 that a traditional blast furnace produces.
Each year integrated steel complexes and mini-mills are finding it more and more difficult to dispose of ferrous and non-ferrous by-products from iron and steelmaking processes. These include iron oxide screenings, baghouse dust and mill scale. In addition, there are millions of tons of metal-bearing waste materials stockpiled around the world from various mining and processing operations. With the commercialization of our revolutionary FASTMET® RHF, we offer a cost-effective means of dealing with these wastes by recovering the valuable zinc and iron units.
Throughout Midrex's history we have been proactive in reducing the environmental impact of our ironmaking processes. Our continued focus is avoiding pollution through further technology development to reduce energy consumption and increase by-product recycling.
One of our key corporate objectives is environmental responsibility through minimizing emissions from MIDREX® plants and offering recycling options. Along with our project partners, we have designed and supplied facilities that are successfully operating under some of the strictest environmental standards in the world, including those of Germany, Canada, the United States and Japan.
MIDREX® Direct Reduction Plants are designed for 100% recycling of process gases and water to minimize emissions and maximize energy efficiency. Emission levels for the MIDREX® Process are lower than all applicable World Bank standards and plants can be designed to meet even stricter local regulations.
Since natural gas is a clean and abundant fuel, the MIDREX® Direct Reduction Process plays an important role in today’s environmentally focused steel industry, producing only one third the CO2 that a traditional blast furnace produces.
Each year integrated steel complexes and mini-mills are finding it more and more difficult to dispose of ferrous and non-ferrous by-products from iron and steelmaking processes. These include iron oxide screenings, baghouse dust and mill scale. In addition, there are millions of tons of metal-bearing waste materials stockpiled around the world from various mining and processing operations. With the commercialization of our revolutionary FASTMET® RHF, we offer a cost-effective means of dealing with these wastes by recovering the valuable zinc and iron units.
Throughout Midrex's history we have been proactive in reducing the environmental impact of our ironmaking processes. Our continued focus is avoiding pollution through further technology development to reduce energy consumption and increase by-product recycling.
