ArcelorMittal Gent
ArcelorMittal SA · Gent · BE · Steel · decarbonisation
ArcelorMittal Gent is ArcelorMittal SA's steel project at Gent, Belgium.
Why it matters
It has money awarded and has not taken a final investment decision.
- ArcelorMittal Gent was awarded public funding by 9 September 2026. as of by 2026-09-09
- Its site is at Gent, Belgium. as of by 2026-09-09
- It uses direct reduction with an electric furnace and hydrogen direct reduction. as of by 2026-09-09
- No committed public money is on file for it. as of by 2026-09-09
Where ArcelorMittal Gent is
ArcelorMittal Gent is at Gent, Belgium, and this register holds no position for it. The company has confirmed the site and no citable source places the works: it is being built where nobody has yet drawn it. The row is held anyway — position is not a condition of being on file — and what was searched, and what was found instead, is below.
NO POSITION SOUGHT BY THIS PASS. Brief 8 forbids geocoding in a census — a municipality is not a point — and position is not an admission leg. The works is named by its owner and by GEM's own plant record; a position is a later task and the row does not wait on it.
Status
- Announced
- Fundedby 2026-09-09
- FID taken
- In construction
- by 2026-09-09FundedADMITTED BY THE FUNDER, and the owner leg is open. “The project will transform the steelmaking operations of ArcelorMittal in Ghent by replacing one of the two existing Blast Furnaces (BFs) with a new Direct Reduction Plant (DRP) and two Electric Arc Furnaces (EAFs).” EUR 262,094,637. corporate.arcelormittal.com answers 403 to a declared reader and no owner document was found; an owner look is queued under rule 17.source
Technology and measures
- Direct reduction with an electric furnacedemonstrationIron ore is reduced in the solid state with gas rather than smelted with coke in a blast furnace, and the resulting iron is melted in an electric furnace. It is the route Europe's integrated sites are converting to, and it is being built to run on natural gas first and hydrogen later, which is why the conversion and the fuel are two different questions with two different timetables.
- Hydrogen direct reductionpilotThe reducing gas is hydrogen rather than natural gas, so what leaves the furnace is water rather than CO2. It is the only route that takes the chemistry of ironmaking to near zero, and it is separated from the conversion itself because every European unit under construction is being commissioned on natural gas and switched later.
Funding
No public capital recorded for this project.
Sources
- ZESTA — Innovation Fund project factsheetEuropean Commission (CINEA) · by 2026-09-09