The new technology recycles waste water and reintroduces it in the manufacturing process, thus reducing consumption of raw materials and water, reducing pollution and lowering the plant’s costs, contributing to economic efficiency, said company general manager Bruno Ribo.
ArcelorMittal group announced earlier this year it will invest EUR40 million at its Romanian steel plant in Galati in 2015, but the number of the plant’s employees is likely to decrease by applying a new voluntary redundancy scheme.
ArcelorMittal expects the plant’s steel output to exceed 2 million tons this year, 300,000 more tons than in 2014.
ArcelorMittal Galati is the Romanian unit of the world’s largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal controlled by Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal.
In 2014, the group had revenues of $79.3 billion and had an output of 93.1 million tons of steel and 63.98 million tons of iron ore.