voestalpine Corporate Blog

A native of Linz, Sarah L. came to Styria to stay. Her enthusiasm for steel also has Upper Austrian roots. Both of her parents worked here in Linz. And during her school and college years, Sarah L. got a taste of shift work there during her summer vacations. Later, while writing her thesis here in Linz, she finally discovered her passion for research.

As a core component of greentec steel, we will commission our electric arc furnace (EAF) in 2027. In addition to scrap and pig iron, we will also feed it with iron briquettes for steel production. HBI is a briquetted form of directly reduced iron that is suitable for transport and storage.

To ensure a continuous

Officially, it’s called the “Microtunnel,” but to us, it’s the biggest one. That’s because it will house the 220-kV lifeline for greentec steel’s electric steel production starting in 2027.

The tunnel carries the high-voltage cable from the connection point in the southern part of the Linz plant site to the new electric arc furnace in the LD3 ste...

We’re really stepping up the pressure for greentec steel. Take, for example, the kilometers long pneumatic tube system at our Linz site. It connects the sintering plant, blast furnaces, steelworks, and foundry to the process laboratory. To ensure our product quality, we’re modernizing this part of our nervous system and adapting it to the current requirements of our emission-...

Mathias took the leap from the restaurant industry to metal technology and joined us as a temporary employee. At first, he was assigned to support tasks, but his interest in technology quickly caught his colleagues’ attention: Mathias is eager to learn and soaks up new information like a sponge. Eventually, he began working on the complex production lines and was quickly hire...