Stahl-Holding-Saar (SHS), which owns steel producers Dillinger and Saarstahl, wants to use the green hydrogen in a new DRI plant it has planned at the Dillinger steel mill in Saarland (close to Germany’s border with France) — which recently secured a preliminary offtake deal with Danish renewables giant Orsted for H₂-derived steel plates for wind turbines.

SHS is targeting 3.5 million tonnes of “green” steel production by 2028 as part of a drive to decarbonise 70% of its steel output by 2030, via the Dillinger DRI plant as well as two new electric arc furnaces, one at Dillinger, and another at its Völklingen steel mill, also in Saarland.