Company Announcements
June 23, 2026
SSAB Americas and partners debut circular steel project
Written by Ethan Bernard
SSAB Americas, the Greenbrier Companies, and Alter Trading have partnered on a project where recycled materials can be used to make near-zero emissions steel and then returned to the supply chain.
The project starts at SSAB’s Montpelier, Iowa, operations, where SSAB’s near-zero emissions steel—SSAB Zero—is produced from recycled metals and fossil-free energy.
Global transportation manufacturing and freight services company Greenbrier is currently using SSAB Zero steel to produce 50 gondola railcars. These will then be delivered to Alter Trading.
After they are delivered, recycled metals loaded on gondolas will be given to SSAB and offloaded to produce new steel, SSAB Americas said.
“This effort demonstrates the performance of near-zero emissions steel in sophisticated industrial applications,” Tom Cox, President of SSAB Americas, said in a statement on Monday. “The circular economy works best with material supplied at scale, to valuable end-use applications within an existing supply chain.”
