By Neste Corp. | October 16, 2023
Neste and Outokumpu deepen their cooperation to cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions. Outokumpu will substitute the fossil fuels utilized by its Kemi mine and Tornio metal mill and the contractors on these websites with Neste MY Renewable Diesel. Outokumpu manufactures the world’s lowest-emission stainless-steel. Its purpose is to realize carbon neutrality at its Kemi mine by 2025. Renewable gasoline equipped by Neste allows the Kemi mine and the Tornio mill to cut back the greenhouse gasoline emissions generated by their fleet and heavy equipment by 90 p.c on common*. With the usage of renewable gasoline equipped by Neste, the Kemi mine’s annual greenhouse gasoline emissions will lower by practically 11,300 tons. It will imply reaching nearly 30 p.c of the whole carbon neutrality goal for the Kemi mine.
The three key elements contributing to reaching carbon neutrality at Outokumpu’s Kemi mine are abandoning fossil fuels (together with contractors’ fleet), utilizing low-emission electrical energy, and changing pure gasoline and propane with different heating strategies. Renewable gasoline equipped by Neste will substitute fossil fuels in heavy equipment, trains, secondary energy sources, and transportation between the Kemi mine and the Tornio mill.
“Our purpose at Neste is to assist prospects cut back their greenhouse gasoline emissions with our renewable and round options by at the least 20 million tons per 12 months by 2030. I’m happy that our long-term cooperation with Outokumpu continues, and that we will help the corporate in working in direction of its bold carbon neutrality goal. The usage of renewable gasoline on the Kemi mine and the Tornio metal mill is Neste’s most in depth mining and metal business collaboration in Europe thus far. Neste’s renewable product is appropriate as such for fleet and heavy equipment working on diesel. By changing fossil fuels with our renewable gasoline in their very own fleet and contractors’ fleet, Outokumpu can instantly cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions,” says Joni Pihlström, Vice President, Advertising & Providers, B2B Gross sales at Neste.
“The carbon neutrality of the Kemi mine is an funding value tens of millions of euros. If achieved, it should imply a discount of practically 40,000 tons in Outokumpu’s greenhouse gasoline emissions. Our first step is to change to renewable gasoline, and we’re in search of to determine all means to cut back emissions all through the worth chain and reduce our complete emissions to as near zero as doable. We’re exploring alternatives to offset the remaining emissions in our worth chain that can’t in any other case be decreased utilizing at present accessible applied sciences. Our purpose is to make the Kemi mine the world’s first operational carbon-neutral mine by 2025,” says Heidi Peltonen, Vice President, Sustainability at Outokumpu.
*) Over the life cycle of the gasoline when in comparison with fossil gasoline. The tactic used to calculate life cycle emissions and emission discount complies with the EU Renewable Vitality Directive II (2018/2001/EU).
