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Steel sheet piles and foundation products are manufactured according to European standards, but can also be supplied according to other international standards (e.g. ASTM).
ArcelorMittal Sheet Piling offers a complete solution package that includes accessories (such as anchoring material, walers, fabricated piles, or driving caps) and full technical support from the conceptual design to the final installation process. Other features and services, such as special fabrications, coatings, or sealant material for interlocks, are also available. ArcelorMittal Sheet Piling can provide customised products and solutions that best fit special project requirements as well.
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Reducing the carbon footprint with steel sheet piles: EcoSheetPile™ & EcoSheetPile™ Plus
2 September 2021Decarbonisation is the most important aspect of ArcelorMittal’s long-term strategy. In line with the Paris Agreement’s goals and the European Green Deal, ArcelorMittal is committing to reduce European CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2050. The company’s new brand, XCarb®, is designed to bring together all of ArcelorMittal’s reduced, low, and zero-carbon products and steelmaking activities.
Product NewsArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products launches EPDs for XCarb® recycled and renewably produced range
19 August 2021To support the construction industry’s climate goals, ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products announced that Environmental Production Declarations (EPDs) are now available for two of its low carbon products. The EPDs provide a life-cycle assessment, detailing the complete environmental footprint of steel sections & merchant bars and EcoSheetPile™ Plus in ArcelorMittal’s recently launched XCarb® recycled and renewably produced range.
Product News
Reducing the carbon footprint with steel sheet piles: EcoSheetPile™ & EcoSheetPile™ Plus
Decarbonisation is the most important aspect of ArcelorMittal’s long-term strategy. In line with the Paris Agreement’s goals and the European Green Deal, ArcelorMittal is committing to reduce European CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2050. The company’s new brand, XCarb®, is designed to bring together all of ArcelorMittal’s reduced, low, and zero-carbon products and steelmaking activities.
EcoSheetPile™
Introduced in 2018, ArcelorMittal Europe - Long Products Sheet Piling's EcoSheetPile™ range is manufactured through the electric arc furnace (EAF) route with 520 kg of CO2 emissions per tonne of finished product. To put this into perspective, in 2018 the average CO2 emissions for the global steel industry including all types of production routes (conventional and electric-based) were around 1.85 tonnes per tonne of steel products*. The Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) of the EcoSheetPile™ product range includes a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and is based on the EAF route using 100% recycled material.
The new EcoSheetPile™ Plus: part of ‘XCarb® recycled and renewably produced’
The new EcoSheetPile™ Plus brand, an essential part of the ‘XCarb® recycled and renewably produced’ initiative for long products, is based on the Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) route using 100% recycled material and - additionally - 100% renewable electricity.
This allows for the production of the new EcoSheetPile™ Plus range with the unprecedented Global Warming Potential (A1-A3) of 0.37 tonne of CO2-eq per tonne of EcoSheetPile™ Plus produced.
The specific Environmental Product Declaration for EcoSheetPile™ Plus is based on a dedicated ‘Cradle-to-Gate with options’ life-cycle analysis. It was approved by an independent reviewer according to ISO 14025 and EN 15804 standards and published by the German Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) official programme holder. It also comes with a Guarantee of Origin certifying the renewable electricity sources audited by an external third party.
The most sustainable construction material
Thanks to the possibility of reuse, steel sheet piles integrate perfectly into the circular economy concept. ArcelorMittal sheet piles can be reused up to twelve times before they are recycled as scrap for the EAF-based steel making process.
In addition, further carbon footprint reductions can be achieved thanks to project-based assessments with fully engineered package solutions relying on our high performance and tailor-made sheet pile sections in combination with high strength steel grades.
Independent third-party infrastructure impact studies show that ArcelorMittal's innovative EcoSheetPile™ Plus design can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 58% in the full scope of LCA (cradle-to-grave) compared to conventional construction methods**.
ArcelorMittal’s steel sheet piles are manufactured with transparent indicators for their environmental performance in certified facilities with regard to product quality management and where employees are protected by Health & Safety policies. This makes them environmentally-friendly construction products.
The environmental impact of ArcelorMittal’s hot rolled steel sheet piles is documented in an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) registered at the Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) Germany and available here.
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* https://www.sustainablefinance.hsbc.com/-/media/gbm/sustainable/attachments/4016-hsbc-csf-steel-report-2019v5.pdf
* https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/metals-and-mining/our-insights/decarbonization-challenge-for-steel#
* https://www.worldsteel.org/en/dam/jcr:c3acc5fd-e3c2-458c-a2cc-8c4880b9334c/Steel%2527s+contribution+to+a+low+carbon+future.pdf
** ArcelorMittal’s SIMIn studies, jointly elaborated with external partners and our R&D teams, are available upon request.
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ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products launches EPDs for XCarb® recycled and renewably produced range
To support the construction industry’s climate goals, ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products announced that Environmental Production Declarations (EPDs) are now available for two of its low carbon products. The EPDs provide a life-cycle assessment, detailing the complete environmental footprint of steel sections & merchant bars and EcoSheetPile™ Plus in ArcelorMittal’s recently launched XCarb® recycled and renewably produced range.
Reducing the carbon footprint of buildings and infrastructure
Speaking about the first product-specific EPDs to be offered, ArcelorMittal Steligence® CEO Olivier Vassart says that “thanks to XCarb® recycled and renewably produced, we are able to offer steel produced with a CO2 footprint as low as 0.33 per tonne of sections and merchant bars and 0.37 per tonne for the EcoSheetPile™ Plus brand. Now, with these two EPDs, we can support the construction industry to meet tougher requirements to reduce the embedded carbon footprint of buildings and infrastructure.”
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XCarb®: Recycled and renewably produced brochure
ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products launches EPDs for XCarb® recycled and renewably produced range
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ArcelorMittal’s piling series are especially suitable for quickly building reliable and cost-effective structures. They are characterised by excellent section properties such as a high ratio of section modulus/weight as well as high moments of inertia.
Steel sheet piles offer significant advantages in the following applications:
Water transport: Quay walls made with steel sheet piles allow for up to 20% faster construction and 15% lower costs when compared with alternative materials. Steel is the material of choice for breakwaters, dolphins, locks, and canals. With the intrinsic ductility of steel, sheet piling solutions in conjunction with modern performance-based design methods help with the design and optimisation of safe ports in seismic areas.
Hazard protection: Dykes and flood or erosion protection barriers made with steel sheet piles are one of the most efficient ways of protecting against floods and rising sea levels, resulting in savings of up to 40%.
Mobility infrastructure: Composite bridges with steel sheet pile abutments require up to 10% less construction time and up to 15% less economic impact on the community throughout their service life. Permanent steel sheet pile walls in underground car parks of two to three levels are up to 50% more cost-effective than walls built with alternative materials and offer significantly shorter execution time.
Environmental protection: Steel sheet piles are used as temporary and permanent retaining walls for landfill conversion, polluted soil remediation, riverbed cleaning operations, and pollution containment.
ArcelorMittal sheet piles can be reused up to ten times before they are recycled through the EAF-based (Electric Arc Furnace) steel making process, making them one of the most sustainable construction materials.
With their new EcoSheetPile™ & EcoSheetPile™ Plus brands, ArcelorMittal Sheet Piling provides steel sheet piles with a significantly reduced carbon footprint produced via the EAF-route using 100% recycled, recyclable, and reusable steel, and - in the case of EcoSheetPile™ Plus - 100% renewable energy with an externally certified Guarantee of Origin. Both brands come with specific EPDs reviewed by independent institutions.
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