What is
Green HBI?
Our low-carbon Hot Briquetted Iron is produced through direct reduction and compacted into dense briquettes for safer handling, storage, and transport. It is a key part of our green iron pathway and a stable metallic input for our green steel.
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Why Green HBI Matters
It is produced through direct reduction, using natural gas with a pathway to incorporate more green hydrogen over time, instead of conventional coal-based routes.
For us, Our Green HBI is a practical foundation for Our Green Steel. It supports a step-by-step transition that is commercially grounded, operationally reliable, and designed to improve further as cleaner energy scales.
Lower-carbon Iron Input
Supports lower emissions than conventional coal-based ironmaking routes.
Safer Transport and Storage
Dense briquettes designed for safer handling, storage, and transport across the MGS value chain.
Built For Modern Steelmaking
Provides a stable iron input for Electric Arc Furnace production and consistent steel quality.
How Green HBI is Made
High-quality iron ore is prepared in pellet form for efficient direct reduction.
Oxygen is removed from the iron ore using reducing gases, producing Direct Reduced Iron, or DRI.
The DRI is compressed at high temperature into dense briquettes, creating Hot Briquetted Iron, or HBI.
Our Green HBI is used in our Electric Arc Furnace route, together with scrap, to produce green steel.
Green HBI vs Conventional Iron Inputs
Aspect
Conventional Iron Inputs
Our Green HBI
Production Route
Typically linked to coal-based blast furnace ironmaking
Direct reduction and hot briquetting
Main Energy Basis
Coal and coke
Natural gas today, with hydrogen pathway over time
Product Form
Hot metal / pig iron or other conventional iron units
Dense briquetted metallic iron
Transport and Storage
Less suited for flexible long-distance metallic supply chains
Designed for safer handling, storage, and transport
Role in Steelmaking
Feeds conventional high-emission routes
Stable input for modern EAF steelmaking