Kobe Steel demonstrates technology that can reduce blast ...
· Kobe Steel, Ltd. () has successfully demonstrated technology that can reduce CO 2 emissions from blast furnace operations by approximately 20% by combining the Midrex' HBI technologies and the blast furnace operations of Kobe Steel. The demonstration test was conducted for a month at a large blast furnace (4,844 m 3) of the Kakogawa Works in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in .