The 10-year agreement is to reduce its environmental footprint
Emirates Steel, the only integrated steel plant in the UAE and a subsidiary of the General Holding Corporation (SENAAT), has signed an agreement with the Finnish company, Ecofer.
The agreement, due to take effect in 2020, will provide Emirates Steel with sustainable slag management services for the next 10 years, in line with the company’s long-term commitment and objective of eventually producing zero waste.
Under this new agreement, signed at Emirates Steel’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi between the CEO of Emirates Steel, Eng. Saeed Al Remeithi, and the Managing Partner of Ecofer Technologies, Ismail Fahmy. Ecofer will process slag from Emirates Steel’s Electric Arc Furnace and Ladle Furnace.
The slag, which will be crushed down to one to five millimeter granules, will be sold as raw product for the construction industry, after any remaining metals have been extracted from the slag. In addition to waste slag, Ecofer will also process refractory, heat-resistant materials which are exhausted during manufacturing.
With this new agreement, Emirates Steel’s slag will be processed and recycled more efficiently. This will enable the company to continue delivering high quality products at competitive costs to customers around the world, while further enhancing the sustainability of its operations by facilitating the reuse of slag as construction material.
Emirates Steel has been recycling its Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) slag product since 2014, producing roughly 2,800,000 tons of EAF slag over the past five years and successfully selling it for use in the construction industry.
“This initiative, our first partnership in the UAE, is part of our expanding global business strategy, as we make strategic partnerships across the Middle East,” commented Ismail Fahmy.
