JSW Group has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Finland-headquartered engineering company, Coolbrook. This strategic partnership will focus on implementing Coolbrook’s RotoDynamic Heater (RDH) technology at JSW’s manufacturing sites at Vijayanagar Works in Karnataka for achieving low-CO2 emissions in steel and cement production.

The partnership follows Coolbrook’s successful completion of the first phase of its large-scale pilot tests for RDH technology at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in the Netherlands in 2023. The tests demonstrated the technology’s heat-generating capabilities, proving the technology’s capability to reach temperatures up to 1,700°C, essential for the highest temperatures required in steel production.

As part of the agreement, both companies will devise a roadmap to facilitate the phased rollout of RDH Technology of JSW Steel and Cement manufacturing processes. 
The deployment in JSW Steel’s production will demonstrate the impact of electrification with clean energy in steel manufacturing processes.

RDH technology utilises renewable electricity to power high-temperature industrial processes, and in steel manufacturing, the technology targets the decarbonisation of manufacturing processes in traditional blast furnaces and the direct reduction of iron (DRI) based production of iron and steel.