APAC Green Steel Summit 2025

Summit Highlights:

• Carbon Neutrality Practices and Trends in Japan’s Steel Industry
• Forging Ahead: Steel in a Shifting Regulatory Era
• Direct reduced iron (DRI) and developments on the use of hydrogen
• Decarbonization in the Steel industry and the Fossil free transformation in Japan
• Meeting Customers’ sustainability Demands by providing near-zero green steel
• Renewable Horizons: Energy Solutions for Low Emission Steel
• Steel Decarbonization in the Automotive Sector: Challenges, Opportunities, and Sustainable Solutions
• Securing the Future for Merchant Green Iron
• Future Challenges and Potential Solutions in the Transition to Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking
• How the Iron Ore Miners are Reacting to the Steel Technology Transition towards DRI and EAF?
• Production Practices on Carbon Neutral Steel with Hydrogen and Challenges in Supply Chain Way Forward
• Panel Discussion Global Ferrous Scrap, Metallics Markets Gear up for Low-emissions Steel Transition

• • The role of ore-based metallics in the pathway to carbon-neutral steelmaking
  • Ensuring the sustainability of ferrous scrap and the scrap sector
  • How will the US tariffs impact scrap prices/trading in Japan, Asia and worldwide?

• Panel Discussion High grade iron ore as a route to decarbonization - Challenges and Opportunities

• • Global pellet feed trade flows
  • DRI market trends
  • Deriving green premiums of high grade iron ore based on green steel prices
  • How to ensure DR pellet feed premiums are sustained amid falling steel prices

• Net zero steel in Asia: breaking down barriers and seizing opportunities
• Green Steel Markets and Opportunities from South-East Asia’s Perspective
• Low CO2 Manganese Alloys: a quick win for steel decarbonization
• Carbon markets & climate-aligned financing towards green steel
• Scaling Green and Low Carbon DR Upstream: Reorganizing Global Steel Supply Chains and Changing Trade Flows
• Achieving carbon emission targets - Assessing realistic incentives or penalty to accelerate the industry’s green transformation
• Fuel resources & technology enablers towards energy & carbon reduction
• Panel Discussion: Upstream Supply Chains Under Green and Decarbonization Pressure - Optimization of the iron and steel value chain towards a low-carbon industry

• • Perspectives of scrap utilization and optimization
  • CBAM’s impact on steelmaking in Japan, Asia and beyond
  • How will energy prices and green electricity sources impact global steelmakers ambitions
  • New technologies for DRI and EAF production

• Panel Discussion: Stakeholders cooperation and partnerships- key to developing a roadmap for a structured green steel transformation

• • Demand and finance in place
  • The role of government policy: Stronger policy signals needed
  • Decarbonising technologies for the steel industry

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