The first truck with CO2-reduced hydraulic line pipes from the new CliMore product label from BENTELER Steel/Tube rolled through the Van Leeuwen factory entrance at the Duisburg site. From now on, Van Leeuwen will purchase additional quantities of the green steel products. To this end, both companies signed a joint declaration of intent.
“With pipes from our new product brand CliMore, we are helping our customers master the biggest challenges of our time – climate change and the decarbonization of industry. We are constantly working to reduce the CO2 footprint and have already adapted our own product and service portfolio to the increasing ecological interest of our customers,” explains Ralph Mathis, CSO BENTELER Steel/Tube.
The first tonnage delivered are hydraulic line pipes, which are used in large agricultural and construction machines in the hydraulics/pneumatics sector. In addition to a significant step towards climate neutrality, they impress with excellent processing properties: precise geometry and optimal material properties ensure smooth use for the customer. In addition, the highest demands on pressure resistance are reliably met by using a higher-strength quality.
BENTELER CliMore
“In September we presented our new product brand CliMore to the public. It includes all CO2-reduced steels and steel tube products from BENTELER Steel/Tube and divides them into the three sustainability categories Advantage, Ambition and Excellence,” says Thomas Begemann, Director of Strategy, Communication and Project Management, BENTELER Steel/Tube.
These categories would show how the steel was produced and which energy sources were used. In all three stages, low-emission steel is produced from scrap using the electric arc furnace - this recycling alone saves up to 75 percent of CO2 emissions compared to the production of new steel from iron ore in the classic blast furnace route. In the “Ambition” level, green electricity is also used in the pipeworks and to operate the electric arc furnace. This leads to savings of up to 85 percent in CO2 emissions. The highest level “Excellence” will in future also rely on electrification of the systems or green hydrogen as an energy source for the process energy in the production of steel and its processing into pipes.
