Major Indian industry leaders, including Tata Steel, have joined forces with Swedish technology pioneers to initiate seven innovative projects focused on decarbonizing essential sectors like steel and cement.
As India advances towards its 2070 net-zero target, reducing emissions from these hard-to-abate sectors will be essential to support the country’s infrastructure development, industrial growth, and long-term climate ambitions, a press statement has said.
Key focus areas include the integration of hydrogen in steel production, recycling steel slag for use in green cement, and leveraging AI technologies to accelerate decarbonization in the cement sector.
Backed by India’s Department of Science and Technology and the Swedish Energy Agency, these collaborative efforts unite leading Indian and international companies along with academic institutions to deliver impactful progress toward a sustainable industrial future.
The projects include using hydrogen in rotary kilns for steelmaking, recycling steel slag to produce green cement, and deploying AI to support cement decarbonisation.
Leading Indian and global companies, research institutes, and technology innovators are driving these seven decarbonisation projects for India’s steel and cement sectors.
The key participants include Tata Steel, JK Cement, Ambuja Cements Ltd, Jindal Steel , Prism Johnson, Cemvision along with Swedish technology leaders Kanthal and Swerim.
India’s top institutes IIT Bombay, IIT-ISM Dhanbad, IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Hyderabad and Datta Meghe College of Engineering are partners in these seven projects, the statement said.
