Tembo Steels joins Italy, USA in implementing 2050 global vision to reduce CO2 emissions

Tembo Steels has two operational plants, and with its DRI focus, it is Uganda’s only primary steel production provider. On top of bringing outstanding product quality due to eliminating steel impurities, the company also brings more product diversity to the continent. It produces HRC, structural steel, and multiple other substrates.

“We are the only primary steel producer in the country, which gives us an inherent advantage in steel purity,” says Sanjay Awasthi, CEO of Tembo Steels Uganda.

“Primary steel production, using virgin iron ore, avoids residual elements found in scrap melting. These residual elements can weaken overall quality, affecting strength and ductility. Our position as the sole primary steel manufacturer ensures a superior product.”

By 2050, the global vision is to reduce CO2 emissions to 0.6 tons. Tembo Steels is on the way to making this possible, joining country like Italy and the USA in protecting the environment.

Tembo Steels is a company that aims to reduce carbon emissions by adopting greener steel production methods. In fact, the firm managed to eliminate carbon emissions by up to 70% over the years.

Tembo Steels takes advantage of the DRI/scrap based route and uses renewable energy to producesteel, ensuring 100% CO2 intensity reduction. The firm got rid of billet reheating as well. Tembo Steels cut down carbon emissions by up to 70% with the help of the EF route and with their DRI plant. But that’s not all.

Tembo Steels also uses level two automation. With the help of digitalization, the company is more efficient and productive, enhancing raw material use and minimizing carbon emissions. Also, they use yield improvement, which employs fewer resources, less processing time, and less energy. This also leads to lower CO2 emissions

Looking at Tembo’s conquest as a primary steel producer in the region, having two plants while many firms are still locked into tertiary and secondary steel making ,the company continues to stretch beyond  manufacturing but also leads in social corporate responsibility .

In primary steelmaking, the iron is changed over into steel by the oxidation process, which helps in the removal of carbon to enormous or required degree and different polluting influences to its negligible and required levels. In the primary, no de-oxidation happens.

Primary steel is obtained from a steel-making process known as the Basic Oxygen Furnace method (BOF). In this method, the iron ore is changed into iron billets used to produce the steel bars.