Kobe Steel announced on May 17 2022 that it will launch “Kobenable Steel” and become Japan’s first*
provider of low CO₂ blast furnace steel products with significantly reduced CO₂ emissions during the blast furnace ironmaking process.
The Company plans to start selling the new products this fiscal year.
*According to the Company’s survey as of May 17, 2022.

Kobenable Steel is based on the KOBELCO Group's CO₂ Reduction Solution for Blast Furnace Ironmaking announced on February 16, 2021.
It utilizes a technology that can significantly reduce CO₂ emissions from the blast furnace, which was demonstrated by charging into the blast
furnace at the Company’s production site Kakogawa Works a large amount of HBI produced by the MIDREX® Process in the engineering business.