POSCO Group announced on the 27th that it will participate in the 2025 Climate Industry International Expo to showcase its decarbonization vision and carbon reduction technology capabilities. The hydrogen reduction steelmaking technology, known as future-oriented steelmaking technology, will also be introduced. The Climate Industry International Expo is an international event hosted by the government and will take place at Busan BEXCO from the 27th for three days.

The hydrogen reduction steelmaking process equipment at POSCO's Pohang Steelworks in Gyeongbuk./Courtesy of POSCO.

At this expo, POSCO Group will operate an integrated exhibition hall featuring POSCO Holdings, POSCO, and POSCO INTERNATIONAL, consisting of five zones: decarbonization vision, hydrogen reduction steelmaking, bridge technology, intelligent factory, and energy transition.

In the hydrogen reduction steelmaking zone, the South Korean hydrogen reduction steelmaking technology 'HyREX' will be introduced, which uses hydrogen as a reducing agent instead of coal to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions. POSCO Group plans to complete the commercialization development of this South Korean hydrogen reduction steelmaking technology, which passed the preliminary feasibility study of the national research and development project evaluation by the government in June of this year, by 2030.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun of Busan is delivering a welcoming speech at the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Climate Industry Expo held at BEXCO in Busan on the 27th./Courtesy of Yonhap News.

The bridge technology zone will showcase technologies for utilizing low-carbon raw materials, introducing electric furnaces, and demonstrating carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). In the intelligent factory zone, AI-based smart blast furnaces and intelligent robot utilization technologies will be revealed. The intelligent factory zone will also introduce a 'quadruped walking robot' that conducts equipment inspections in areas difficult for workers to access.

The energy transition zone will exhibit detailed information on POSCO INTERNATIONAL's Incheon LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) combined power plant, as well as corrosion-resistant alloy-coated steel plate PosMAC for energy storage systems (ESS) and high-manganese steel for LNG and liquefied hydrogen tanks.

A representative from POSCO Group said, 'We recognize the decarbonization transition as a strategic opportunity to strengthen the group's future growth engines and plan to solidify the foundation for sustainable growth through systematic implementation of decarbonization strategies across the entire process, including technology development, facility investment, and energy procurement.'

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