en.Wedoany.com Reported - United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) plans to build a new direct reduced iron (DRI) plant at its Big River Steel facility in Osceola, Arkansas, and has selected Midrex Technologies to handle the technical implementation of the project.

The project is scheduled to begin operations in 2029, with an annual design capacity of 2.5 million tons, producing both hot direct reduced iron (HDRI) and hot briquetted iron (HBI). HDRI will be directly supplied to the electric arc furnaces (EAF) on site, effectively reducing energy consumption, operating costs, and carbon emission intensity, while high-strength HBI will be supplied to the global market.

The core role of this plant is to bridge the gap between U.S. iron ore mining and EAF steelmaking. In terms of carbon emissions, the natural gas-based production process can reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 50% compared to the traditional blast furnace route. Midrex holds a dominant market share in shaft furnace direct reduction technology, with nearly 80% of global DRI capacity using its technology.

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