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voestalpine AG

Sustainability

For decades, voestalpine has been the environmental and efficiency benchmark for the industry. We provide information on which sustainability criteria and standards we follow, on how we are continuously improving our carbon footprint, and about our sustainable products and solutions.

Steel cycle: How scrap is turned into green steel
The conversion to “green” steel production means that significantly more scrap will be needed in the future. However, this increasing demand cannot be fully covered by new scrap (pre-consumer scrap). In future, it will therefore be necessary to make greater use of old scrap (post-consumer scrap), which has to be processed and sorted at great […]
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voestalpine has been recognised as an environmental and efficiency benchmark in the industry for decades.
The steel industry is a pioneer in closing material cycles. Why? Because the material can be reused again and again with virtually no loss of quality. This is another reason why steel is one of the most recycled materials in the world.
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Target reached! 700,000 euros for charitable projects
Since 1 March 2024, our employees have been moving the world – and themselves – across the Group and around the world. Through their sporting activities, they collected digital “cares” in the second round of the voestalpine cares run, which are converted into voestalpine donations and benefit international aid projects.
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greentec steel

greentec steel: building progress above and below ground
At voestalpine, we are building bridges and tunnels as part of greentec steel, our program for the conversion to carbon-neutral steel production. The new 800 meter-long conveyor belt bridge that will also supply the electric arc furnace with raw materials from 2027 onwards was recently completed.
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Donawitz: the team behind greentec steel
The entire project team is already caught up in the excitement of greentec steel, and not just in Linz. As part of Austria’s largest climate protection program and voestalpine’s most extensive investment project to date, a fresh, green steel wind is now also blowing at the site in Donawitz. It is a megaproject, one that […]
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