Milestone on the road to green steelmaking

We’re proud to share a new milestone in our journey toward DRI-EAF steelmaking. The Dutch government and Tata Steel Nederland are reinforcing a shared commitment to accelerate the transition to cleaner, greener steel production. The new steelmaking route, combined with our proven processing capabilities, will enable us to deliver high-quality products that help you meet your sustainability goals, especially through our Zeremis portfolio.

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Dutch government and Tata Steel sign JLoI

Shared step toward sustainable steel

Reinforcing our commitment with government and partners

Tata Steel Nederland is proud to mark another milestone on our journey to becoming a clean, green, and circular steel company. Together with the Dutch government and Tata Steel Limited, we have signed a Joint Letter of Intent (JLoI), reinforcing our shared commitment to a sustainable and future-proof steel industry in the Netherlands. This agreement supports our transition to Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) and Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steelmaking; an essential step in reducing CO₂ emissions and increasing circularity across our operations.

Our future steel will help our customers meet their sustainability goals

Our future steel will help our customers meet their sustainability goals. With a significantly lower CO₂ footprint and enhanced circularity, our products will support markets ranging from hot rolled coil for heavy vehicles to tinplate for steel packaging, tubes for solar panel frames and panels for buildings and warehouses. By combining innovative steelmaking with our existing high-quality processing capabilities, we continue to deliver advanced materials that help our customers tackle their scope 3 emissions. Since launching our Zeremis journey in 2023, we’ve developed commercial offerings and are now progressing towards embodied low-CO₂ steel produced in our IJmuiden plant.

Powering the shift to low-CO₂ steel

Meeting evolving customer needs

Our new installations will be powered by natural gas, biomethane, and - once sufficiently available and affordable - biomethane and green hydrogen. By replacing coal, we are helping to accelerate the energy transition in the Netherlands and across Europe. This shift enables us to offer locally produced, competitive, high-quality low-CO₂ steel that meets evolving customer needs and strengthens European manufacturing value chains. Our DRI-EAF technology marks a significant step toward carbon neutrality, with built-in potential for further progress in circularity and emissions reduction. As part of the Tata Group’s commitment to carbon neutrality by 2045, this journey is a shared endeavour, driven forward together with our customers and partners.