Hyundai Steel recently promoted its products and net-zero blueprints with the operation of a booth at the Steel & Metal Korea 2021 (SMK 2021).
The event, held at EXCO (a landmark convention center in Daegu), represented “a great leap forward towards becoming an industry of future basic materials” and drew over 100 participants, who visited to experience the excellence of Korea’s steel and metal industries.
Hyundai Steel’s booth was subdivided into the different sections-“H CORE,” “H-SOLUTION,” and “HYDROGEN WAVE”- the layout of which enabled visitors to see and understand the past, present, and future of the company. Hyundai Steel’s most valued materials and products were featured in the “H CORE” and “H-SOLUTION” sections as a strong display of brand power.
At the first zone “H CORE,” representing the company’s pasty, 12 Hyundai Steel products were on display that were developed from 2001 to 2019. One of the products was Korea’s first “H CORE,” which has been officially recognized as a World Class Product of Korea. The second zone “H-SOLUTION,” representing the company’s present, included explanations of the science behind the materials and applications that have made H-SOLUTION possible; a concept EV was also on display. The third zone “HYDROGEN WAVE,” representing the company’s future under the banner “Net Zero 2050 Hyundai Steel,” focused primarily on hydrogen society technologies demonstrating the advantages of electric furnace steelmaking.
This last section, in particular, affirmed Hyundai Steel’s mission to achieve carbon neutrality through green-hydrogen steelmaking. The vistors, who stopped the Hyundai Steel booth with Hyundai Steel Vice-president and Chief of the Furnace Operations Division Park Jong-sung, viewed many goals and accomplishments of the company,including: an electric furnace technology, which has been perfected over time; iron-reduction steelmaking technology using hydrogen (hydrogen-reduction steelmaking); and a model of a green city.
The SMK 2021 celebrated and explored the core concepts of the environment, safety, AI/smart technologies, advanced functions, and antibacterial/bio technologies. A majority of the companies in attendance at the expo embraced a “zero carbon, max safety” approach for future business operations. Many impressive steel and metal innovations-such as future cars, rechargeable batteries, semiconductors, IoT, big data, smart farming, green energy, and more-were on display at the expo as forerunners of the high-added-value and advanced functions that are sure to define the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
