Opening Cerimony - 4th EMECR
International Conference on energy and material efficiency and CO2 reduction in the steel industry
Date: June 07, 2022
Time: 8:35 - 12:45
Place: Auditorium Gerdau
8:35 - Openning:
Horacidio Leal Barbosa Filho - Executive presidente - ABM - Brazil
José Noldin - Chairman 4th EMECR; Head CSN INOVA TECH Technology and Decarbonization - Brazil
José Carlos D’Abreu - Coordinator Scientific Comittee 4th EMECR - Emeritus Professor at PUC-RJ - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
8:50 - EMECR's Host Company Speech:
Guilherme Abreu - General Manager of Institutional Relations and Sustainability - ArcelorMittal - Brazil
9:00 - Honoree and Lecture
Decarbonizing steel production: challenges and opportunities - Pinakin Chaubal - Group CTO - ArcelorMittal - USA
9:36 - Honoree and Lecture
Converting blast furnace to self-reduction smelting mode - Marcos Contrucci - Founder - Gavea Tech - Brazil
11:05 - Plenary Session:
Introduction: José Noldin - Chairman 4th EMECR; Head CSN INOVA TECH Technology and Decarbonization - Brazil
Aço Verde do Brazil is the world’s first carbon neutral steel plant - Ricardo Carvalho Nascimento - CEO Aço Verde do Brasil S/A - Brazil
Modelling the costs of a green transition for steel - Julia Attwood - Head of sustainable materials - Bloomberg Nef - USA
Approaches to find the lowest cost & most reliable decarbonization pathway - Steve Potter - Director metallics - Vale - Brazil