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 ACME Group is planning to speculate about ₹5,000 crore to ascertain a 1.2 million tonnes every year (MTPA) Green Hot Briquetted Iron and Green Direct Reduced Iron (HBI/GRI) facility (section 1) for the manufacturing of inexperienced metal, in keeping with individuals acquainted with the event.

“Our greenfield facility will produce a few of the lowest carbon emission inexperienced HBI and DRI merchandise, underscoring our dedication as a frontrunner of unpolluted expertise options in India,”.

Manoj Kumar Upadhyay, chairman, ACME Group, stated on Sunday (October 12, 205) the corporate stated it has executed a binding time period sheet with Stavian Industrial Metal for a long-term sale and buy of 0.8 MTPA of inexperienced HBI and DRI on a take or pay/provide or pay foundation for a tenure of 10 years.

Stavian Industrial Metal is a Vietnamese company specializing within the processing, funding and buying and selling of business metallic supplies, with a imaginative and prescient for sustainable improvement and innovation within the international metals market.

“This collaboration marks a major milestone in ACME’s integration of inexperienced metal into our portfolio as a part of our strategic enterprise growth,” Mr. Upadhyay stated.

The term-sheet shall be adopted by an offtake settlement whereby ACME Group will make the provision from its deliberate facility.

ACME Group’s settlement with Stavian Industrial Metal goals to leverage its capabilities in inexperienced hydrogen to course of HBI and DRI used within the manufacturing of inexperienced metal.

“We see this as a pure development of our enterprise to increase clear power options in serving to the transition of gray metal into inexperienced metal,” Mr. Upadhyay stated.

The inexperienced hydrogen for this mission shall be provided from ACME Group’s underneath development inexperienced hydrogen facility. The Green HBI/DRI facility shall be positioned at one in every of its present websites, the place Green Hydrogen and Renewable Power shall be accessible.

“Necessary purposes are being made to the respective authorities. Once we have now obtained the required regulatory and authority clearances, development of the Green HBI/DRI facility will begin,” he stated.

The Group is at present within the strategy of organising its Green Hydrogen facility in Odisha and is already in superior levels of developing a inexperienced hydrogen facility in Oman.

David Nguyen Minh Tu, Chairman, Stavian Industrial Metal stated, “The partnership isn’t merely a business settlement, however a testomony to our shared duty in realizing the Net Zero targets – by 2050 for Vietnam and 2070 for India.”

“With a stable basis, robust monetary capability, and an ecosystem of over 20,000 clients throughout greater than 100 nations, Stavian Industrial Metal is dedicated to working alongside international companions to construct a extra sustainable and greener metal business,” he added.

The international inexperienced metal market is experiencing fast transition, fueled by heightened local weather commitments, regulatory necessities, and rising demand from industries centered on decarbonizing their manufacturing processes and provide chain mechanism creating important enterprise alternatives for producers and clear expertise suppliers worldwide.

As governments and enormous firms mandate decarbonization, demand for low-carbon metal is surging in sectors like automotive, development, and client items.

Major economies reminiscent of Europe, the United States, and China are making substantial investments in superior inexperienced metal applied sciences, together with hydrogen-based interventions to modernize steelmaking processes and considerably reduce emissions.

Published – October 12, 2025 03:35 pm IST