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greentec steel Donawitz

voestalpine · Donawitz · AT · Steel · circularity

In construction850,000 tonnes CO2-reduced steel per year

greentec steel Donawitz is voestalpine's steel project at Donawitz, Austria.

Why it matters

It is being built.

  • greentec steel Donawitz went into construction on 18 June 2026. as of 2026-06-18
  • It is at Donawitz, Austria. as of 2026-06-18
  • It uses electric arc furnace on scrap. as of 2026-06-18
  • It is built for 850,000 tonnes CO2-reduced steel per year. as of 2026-06-18
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2026-06-18

Where greentec steel Donawitz is

greentec steel Donawitz is at Donawitz steelworks. Also in frame: 1 site using the same technology.

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filled: operating, commissioning or under constructionhollow: announced, funded, or pausedringed: this project

47.3831° N 15.0604° EDonawitz steelworks

as of 2026-06-18

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction2026-06-18
  5. Operating
  • 2026-06-18In constructionThe electric furnace is under construction for operation from 2027, with an expansion to 1.5 Mt by 2030 announced. No primary source for the earlier groundbreaking has been read, so the history starts here.source

Technology and measures

  • Electric arc furnace on scrapcommercialSteel is remelted from scrap in an electric furnace, with no ironmaking step and therefore none of its CO2. It is not an emerging route — it is already two fifths of European output — and what limits it is how much scrap of the right quality Europe collects and keeps, not whether the furnace works.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources