Italian plantmaker Danieli has announced that its steelmaking divison Acciaierie Bertoli Safau with its Croatian subsidiary ABS Sisak will invest €200 million to secure green steel production in Croatia.
The investment will go towards upgrade projects for the steel melting process and the construction of a new, up-to-date rolling mill at ABS Sisak. It will be a fully digitalized plant that, according to Danieli, will scale up energy efficiency and carbon savings.
The modernization process began two years ago with the introduction of Q-One, which was developed and tested at the Sisak plant.
The existing ABS Sisak meltshop will be upgraded with the Digimelter that will allow the direct use of renewable energy sources. There, the plant will be powered by solar energy, allowing ABS to usher in a new era of more sustainable steel production and ensure alignment with global climate commitments.
“Transformation of the Sisak plant will give new life not only to our steelmaker, but to the entire city of Sisak.”
Croatian minister, Davor Filipović
Referring to his visit to the ABS plant in Carganacco, Croatian minister Davor Filipovic said: “I was impressed to be able to see clean and digitalized operations in one place, where all the manual work is replaced with automated activities in which staff participates only as process controllers,” – and added: “Transformation of the Sisak plant will give new life not only to our steelmaker, but to the entire city of Sisak.”
''Buttrio and Cargnacco are industrial zones of excellence envied by many foreign countries.”
Italian minister, Giancarlo Giorgetti
Italian minister Giancarlo Giorgetti also acknowledged Danieli and ABS for their ongoing commitment to reducing the environmental impact: “Buttrio and Cargnacco are industrial zones of excellence envied by many foreign countries,” and he underlined the importance of collaboration among European countries such as Croatia, Italy and Slovenia: as an “example of true international cooperation”.