India’s Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL), a Vedanta Group company, and Tata Steel Limited have inked a pact to collaborate on expanding the use of low-carbon zinc solutions in steelmaking, a HZL regulatory filing said on Tuesday, March 24.
“The collaboration extends long standing association with Tata Steel Limited expanding and integrating ‘EcoZen’ low-carbon zinc solutions into sustainable steel manufacturing,” HZL, the country’s sole integrated zinc producer, said in the filing.
EcoZen is produced using renewable energy and has a verified carbon footprint of less than one mt of carbon dioxide equivalent per mt of zinc - about 75 percent lower than the global industry average, it said
By significantly reducing emissions at the raw material stage, EcoZen enables downstream industries to lower value-chain emissions and advance their decarbonization goals.
"Our partnership with Tata Steel is a significant milestone in scaling up the adoption of low-carbon zinc and reinforcing greener supply chains across India's industrial ecosystem," CEO of HZL, Arun Misra, said.
Zinc plays an important role in galvanizing steel, protecting against corrosion and extending service life, making it indispensable across sectors such as infrastructure, automotive, renewable energy, electronics and energy storage.