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  • ArcelorMittal and LanzaTech break ground on €150million project to revolutionise blast furnace carbon emissions capture

    ArcelorMittal and LanzaTech break ground on €150million project to revolutionise blast furnace carbon emissions capture ArcelorMittal has begun construction of new premises at its site in Ghent, Belgium, to house a pioneering new installation which will convert carbon-containing gas from its blast furnaces into bioethanol. If proved successful, the new concept has the potential to […]

  • Accident in the coking plant

    Press release Accident in the coking plant of ArcelorMittal Gent Ghent, 20 November 2017 On Monday November 20, at 15h10, an explosion took place in the by-products zone of the coke plant in ArcelorMittal Gent. The internal and external emergency services arrived on site. The accident resulted in one fatality and two injured who are both […]

  • The Challenge

    Press release ArcelorMittal Belgium organises ‘The Challenge’, its first Industry 4.0 hackathon Ghent, September 17 2017 ArcelorMittal Belgium’s first hackathon – an event where computer programmers and technology specialists collaborate over a short time period to create new software – has taken place in the centre of Ghent. ‘The Challenge’ was open to students and […]

  • Inauguration world-first for steel industry: Jet Vapor Deposition

    News release ArcelorMittal, the Walloon government and Sogepa celebrate world-first for steel industry, developed in Liège His Majesty The King of the Belgians has officially inaugurated a new, €63m production line – the Jet Vapor Deposition (JVD) line – at the ArcelorMittal Belgium facilities in Kessales. The opening is the culmination of years of scientific […]

  • Inauguration walking beam furnace

    ArcelorMittal Gent to inaugurate €49m walking beam furnace in presence of Belgium’s deputy prime minister Kris Peeters and Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois On Thursday April 21st a new walking beam furnace in ArcelorMittal Gent’s hot strip mill will be officially inaugurated, in the presence of Belgium’s deputy Prime Minister Kris Peeters and Flemish minister-president Geert […]