PRESS RELEASES

13. September 2023

All about ferrous slag

Updated brochure with new chapter on transformation 

 

Duisburg, September 13th, 2023. The FEhS Building Materials Institute has updated its brochure “Ferrous slag. Valuable raw material for resource-saving management”. With latest figures of 2022, it provides information on the production and use of the by-product of steel production, as well as on CO2 emissions saved and quantities of natural rock substituted. New is the chapter “Transformation of the steel industry and new slags”, which is dedicated to the decarbonization of steel production. The 20-page compact publication with numerous graphics is available in print and as a pdf at www.fehs.de in the download area. 

In eight chapters, the brochure “Ferrous Slag” provides a comprehensive overview of the secondary raw material: from its production and technological and ecological properties to its various applications as a building material, in traffic route construction and as a fertilizer, to an outlook on the future by-products of hydrogen-based steel production. Extensive, graphically prepared figures, for example on resource and climate protection using ferrous slag, make the publication a useful information tool for architects, engineers, building contractors, representatives of public authorities and politicians. 

Thomas Reiche, Managing Director of the FEhS Institute: “With the Compact Brochure 2023, we want to show the contribution of the steel industries’ by-products to a sustainable circular economy. Because only those who are comprehensively informed can act in an economically and ecologically sensible way. This applies above all to the future use of secondary raw materials, which conserve natural resources and the climate even in First Life.“

 

About the FEhS Institute:

For seven decades, the FEhS Building Materials Institute has been one of Europe’s leading addresses for research, testing and consulting on iron and steel slag, building materials and fertilisers. As a modern service provider, the experts with seven laboratories, the Construction Competence Forum and a network of industrial associations, public authorities, standardisation committees, as well as institutions from science and research, are a sought-after partner for members and customers from all over the world.

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16. März 2021

Public Sector to make greater use of secondary raw materials

EUROSLAG and FEhS Institute in favour of EU Parliament plans for the Circular Economy

 

Duisburg, 25 February 2021. The EU Parliament’s own-initiative report adopted this month calls for an upgrading of secondary raw materials. Among other things, it provides for stronger ecologically oriented public procurement with mandatory minimum criteria, for example in the construction industry. For the European network EUROSLAG and the FEhS Building Materials Institute, this is an important step towards a comprehensive approval of secondary building materials and their conditional prioritisation in public procurement tenders. For this to happen, however, European public procurement law must be amended, as a legal opinion by the law firm Kopp-Assenmacher & Nusser, commissioned by the two Duisburg institutions in 2020, found.

Thomas Reiche, Chairman at EUROSLAG and Managing Director of the FEhS Institute, now sees the ball in the European Commission’s court: “The own-initiative report provides the best foundation for binding, forward-looking legislation to consistently promote the circular economy. This also includes fair competition and the conditional prioritisation of secondary raw materials, as also demanded by the rapporteur of the European Parliament Jan Huitema. Only concrete procurement directives with third-party protection character ensure the Europe-wide use of all high-quality secondary building materials, which have been making an important contribution to ecologically and economically sound economic activity for decades!”

The European Parliament’s own-initiative report, under the lead of the Environment Committee, has adopted numerous demands based on the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan of March 2020. These include the promotion of resource efficiency, the Ecodesign Directive for products and green public procurement. Plans for the construction industry include specifications for the use of secondary raw materials and recycling. The Parliament’s proposals serve as a template for legislation by the European Commission.

 

About EURSOSLAG:

EUROSLAG brings together 26 organisations and companies from 17 countries. As the European network for the production, use and development of iron and steel slag and slag-based products, EUROSLAG focuses on research and technology, standardisation at European level and internal and external communication.

About the FEhS Institute:

For seven decades, the FEhS Building Materials Institute has been one of Europe’s leading addresses for research, testing and consulting on iron and steel slag, building materials and fertilisers. As a modern service provider, the experts with seven laboratories, the Construction Competence Forum and a network of industrial associations, public authorities, standardisation committees, as well as institutions from science and research, are a sought-after partner for members and customers from all over the world.

 

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Pressemitteilung vom 17. November 2020

Making the use of by-products mandatory in the EU

Pressemitteilung vom 18. Juni 2020

Exploiting opportunities to promote the circular economy

Pressemitteilung vom 13. März 2020

Better framework conditions for iron and steel slags

Pressemitteilung vom 10. Oktober 2019

10th EUROSLAG Conference calls for fair treatment of ferrous slags

Pressemitteilung vom 09. März 2017

Replacement Building Material Ordinance jeopardises resource efficiency

Pressemitteilung vom 12. August 2016

FEhS Institute states specifics of changes needed in the Replacement Building Material Ordinance

Pressemitteilung vom 11. August 2016

FEhS Institute calls for fundamental changes to the Replacement Building Material Ordinance

Pressemitteilung vom 19. April 2016

Assumption of tasks of the Blast Furnace Lime Association as of 1 April 2016

Pressemitteilung vom 30. März 2016

Assumption of tasks of the Blast Furnace Lime Association as of 1 April 2016

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