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Sustainability is higher up the global agenda than ever, and nowhere more so than in the United States, where President Joe Biden seeks to reduce nationwide greenhouse gas emissions to less than half the 2005 levels by 2030. Electrification will be key to this evolution in the steel industry.

For heating steel ingots, fiber insulation and electric heating combine to give good temperature control and little energy loss at Kanthal’s steel plant in Hallstahammar, Sweden.

At its wire hot rolling mill in Hallstahammar, Sweden, Kanthal’s electric walking beam furnace provides clean, efficient and reliable heating.

Electric heating has transformed the furnaces of a venerable European producer of engineering steel.

Even after more than 25 years of operation, Kanthal’s pit furnace is clean, quiet and offers excellent temperature precision – thanks to its use of electric heating.

Knowledge is the key to expanding the electrification of Swedish steel, says Helena Malmqvist at the Swedish Steel Producers’ Association.