High quality standards, guaranteed strength, and durability offered by steel products provide a sense of security and stability. ArcelorMittal Europe’s trademark steels, including the HISTAR® and Amstrong® structural steel grades that combine high strength, good toughness, and superior weldability, perfectly match these requirements.
The aesthetics of steel and its unthinkable beauty can be seen in countless aspects:
- A large panel of surface finishes: smooth, grained, textured, or embossed.
- A wide choice of colours: solid, metallic, pearlescent.
- A required degree of gloss: anything from matt to high gloss.
- Various printed patterns can be proposed to complete the range of possibilities.
To obtain such performances, among other product ranges, ArcelorMittal Europe offers:
For outdoor use
- Granite® product range
- Indaten® weathering steels with their specific patina finish
For indoor use
- Estetic® product range
We are at your disposal, ready to offer products of the highest quality that perfectly suit your needs.
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Watch the webinar: Mounted PV - Steel foundations explored
8 December 2023In partnership with pv magazine, ArcelorMittal presented a webinar on solutions for strong foundation design and durability, including options for reducing environmental impact as part of its XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel programme. Watch the replay here!
Industry newsArcelorMittal crane rails in Sri Lanka’s largest port
4 December 2023From port and terminal projects to giant cranes, ArcelorMittal crane rails are used in many applications and can be found in ports on all continents.ArcelorMittal Europe - Long Products contributed to new terminal project in the capital city of Colombo in Sri Lanka by supplying MRS87A grade 90 crane rails from its Rails & Special Sections mill in Rodange, Luxembourg. These rails have a high protection coating (level C5) to protect them against corrosion, achieving the desired level of protection and maintaining their specifications.
Project newsXCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel selected for bridge reconstruction after flood in Germany
1 December 2023The images of the devastating floods in Belgium and Germany in 2021 are still fresh in our minds. With hundreds of deaths, these floods were one of the worst natural disasters in Europe, in terms of the number of victims, for many years. In Germany, the Ahr Valley was the hardest hit. The flood destroyed much of the infrastructure, including the rail bridge at Bad Münstereifel, which was completely destroyed by the flood and has disrupted rail traffic ever since. Two years on, the reconstruction is almost complete.
Project news
Watch the webinar: Mounted PV - Steel foundations explored
In partnership with pv magazine, ArcelorMittal presented a webinar on solutions for strong foundation design and durability, including options for reducing environmental impact as part of its XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel programme. Watch the replay here!
Changing environments require new products
When it comes to solar PV systems, mounting systems are a classic focus for developers, EPCs, module suppliers, asset owners, and all key stakeholders. However, the very backbone of these setups is the solid foundation, and in this webinar, we dig into this often underestimated, yet critical, aspect of solar power.
Climate change is seeing rising weather variance across many parts of the world, with more aggressive storms, winds, and extreme conditions becoming more frequent. Solid foundations for solar plants not only resist high winds and provide a sturdy and stable base for the solar module mounting systems and associated BOM, but also distribute weight to avoid sinking into the ground. They are also relatively easy to install, and custom solutions are available.
New products are able to offer more benefits for owners without changing installation operations or techniques. The use of steel in foundations remains one of the most viable options offering robustness, infinite recyclability potential, and long-term durability, especially when combined with protective coatings.
Strong foundations with reduced environmental impact: ArcelorMittal's XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel
Backing up these assertions, ArcelorMittal, a leading supplier of steel globally including for the solar industry, joined pv magazine to talk about its solutions for strong foundation design and durability, including options for reducing environmental impact as part of its XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel programme.
Jérôme Guth, Head of segments & products business development, Corinne Dieu, product leader for metallic coated steels, and Jean-Louis Remlinger, solar market senior analyst, from ArcelorMittal provide updates on its efforts to continue to strengthen the corrosion resistance of its Magnelis® coated steel, including various coating options to increase the lifetime of solar investments.
Webinar topics include:
- The benefits of Magnelis® coated steel for foundations, poles, and posts in a solar system
- Trial results of high strength steels for ramming poles and the FEM model
- The benefits of high strength steel in terms of weight, cost, and CO2 footprint reduction
- Reducing steel’s CO2 footprint via XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel
- Q&A
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pv magazine
Constructalia
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ArcelorMittal crane rails in Sri Lanka’s largest port
From port and terminal projects to giant cranes, ArcelorMittal crane rails are used in many applications and can be found in ports on all continents.
ArcelorMittal Europe - Long Products contributed to new terminal project in the capital city of Colombo in Sri Lanka by supplying MRS87A grade 90 crane rails from its Rails & Special Sections mill in Rodange, Luxembourg. These rails have a high protection coating (level C5) to protect them against corrosion, achieving the desired level of protection and maintaining their specifications.
Complete solutions to meet customers’ requirements
China's Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company (ZPMC) Ltd has won the tender to supply 12 giant cranes and 40 rail mounted automatic gantry cranes for the new port. As a result, ArcelorMittal also supplied A75 crane rails to equip the ZPMC's STS cranes used for the terminal.
ArcelorMittal is a key supplier and partner for this project thanks to our ability to offer complete solutions across our product range and steel grades. "This was possible thanks to the great collaboration between the mill and the commercial teams, which enabled us to achieve good results and meet the customer’s requirements," concludes Frédéric Goujon, ArcelorMittal Product manager for crane, grooved, and light rails.
ArcelorMittal works closely with its customers to develop new or specific rails and products according to their needs, while maintaining a high degree of production flexibility.
New container terminal for Colombo Port
Colombo is Sri Lanka's largest port and handles 90% of the country's maritime cargo, making it an important container port on the East-West maritime route in South Asia.
The new East Container Terminal (ECT) at Colombo Port will feature a 1320-metre-long, 75-hectare container yard, including the connected services needed to operate as a modern container terminal. The entire project is scheduled for completion in 2025.
A road network has been designed to ensure efficient traffic flow for warehouse operations and rail loading. The marshalling area has been designed with a container stacking facility with wagon loading and unloading facilities. Once established, this will serve as an interchange point between road and rail to serve the terminals in the port of Colombo.
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ArcelorMittal Europe Communications
Constructalia
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XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel selected for bridge reconstruction after flood in Germany
The images of the devastating floods in Belgium and Germany in 2021 are still fresh in our minds. With hundreds of deaths, these floods were one of the worst natural disasters in Europe, in terms of the number of victims, for many years. In Germany, the Ahr Valley was the hardest hit. The flood destroyed much of the infrastructure, including the rail bridge at Bad Münstereifel, which was completely destroyed by the flood and has disrupted rail traffic ever since. Two years on, the reconstruction is almost complete.
Lower carbon footprint with XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel
For the reconstruction of the bridge on the Erfttal railway, ArcelorMittal Distribution Solutions Germany supplied 50 tonnes of XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel.
Conscious of the need to reduce CO2 emissions to slow climate change, the client in charge of rebuilding the bridge decided to use ArcelorMittal's low carbon emissions steel for the rebuild. XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel is made using up to 100% scrap using only renewable electricity, leaving a significantly lower CO2 footprint (around 40 tonnes of CO2 were saved).
A total of eight HEA 900 sections in XCarb® recycled and renewably produced, with a total weight of 50 tonnes, were delivered for the bridge reconstruction. The profiles were heightened and then drilled with 810 holes. The finishing of the beams took place in the Steligence® fabrication centre in Luxembourg.
From December 2023, the Erfttal railway should be running again, thanks to ArcelorMittal steel.
Want to know more about XCarb® and ArcelorMittal's low carbon emissions steel?
Low carbon emissions steel products play a crucial role in a circular economy as the majority of emissions from construction projects come from the carbon footprint of the materials themselves. Through contracts like this one in the Ahr Valley, ArcelorMittal can realise its potential in collaboration with stakeholders and further develop towards carbon neutral steel.
The XCarb® initiative, launched by ArcelorMittal in March 2021, brings together all of ArcelorMittal's reduced-, low-, and zero-carbon products and steelmaking activities.
Scrap and renewable energy: the levers of low CO2 steel
To produce XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel, ArcelorMittal uses up to 100% scrap and renewable electricity coming from renewable sources, such as solar and wind power.
ArcelorMittal estimates that XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel has a carbon footprint as low as 0.3 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of steel product when the metallics are 100% scrap, which is certified by a published Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).
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ArcelorMittal Europe Communications
Constructalia
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ArcelorMittal
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