Finland: Saint-Gobain has chosen Bravida as the electrical contractor for a slag processing plant it is building at Raahe in North Ostrobothnia. The project, located in the Port of Raahe, is scheduled to be completed during the first half of 2025.
The plant is designed to take steel slag supplied by SSAB and convert it into binders that can be used in Saint-Gobain products, such as its Weber brand mortars. SSAB says that the process is the first of its kind in the world and will enable 100% of the slag created in its steelmaking process to be recycled. Saint-Gobain and SSAB have been developing the process together for five years. The slag processing plant is scheduled for commissioning in 2025.
In a previous announcement, Gunnar Lauren, Senior R&D Manager at Saint-Gobain Finland, described the project. “When we studied SSAB’s manufacturing process, we noticed that the end step in the processing of special steel has similarities to the production of special cement. We can replace the slag created as a side stream of steel cleaning to replace, for example, the special cement used in Weber dry mortars.”
