Acerinox Europa was the first integrated stainless steel factory in the world and it was founded in 1970. This factory is in a privileged location of southern Spain, next to the strait that links the Atlantic with the Mediterranean, and has 1746 employees (2024).
The factory of Acerinox Europa has a melting shop capacity of one million tonnes. This factory supplies mainly flat products (sheet, plates) to the European continent and material for producing long products in other plants of the Acerinox Group.
Acerinox Europa is committed to sustainability and encourages eco-practices during manufacturing, such as circular economy, waste recovery and novel technologies that ensure the decarbonization of this factory.
On the other hand, Acerinox Europa is running around 28 R+D projects on sustainability and new alloys development. Recently, 5 hydrogen related projects have started in order to develop materials towards hydrogen application and the replacement of natural gas with green hydrogen in the annealing furnaces of this factory.
Role of Acerinox Europa in the project: Supply samples of different grades of thin-thickness ferritic stainless steels to study the viability of these commercial materials as interconnectors in SOECs devices. Certification of the materials sent in terms of chemical composition, mechanical properties and surface properties. Advice to the consortium on the materials that should or can be evaluated for the specific application based on the expected service conditions and the known properties of the materials considered.