Throwback Thursday

• £54M collaborative H2GEAR programme to push hydrogen technology and accelerate aerospace decarbonisation to zero emissions
• Public-private investment and collaboration aims to create more than 3,000 UK roles
• Entry-into-service of hydrogen-powered aircraft could be as early as 2026
• Project maintains GKN Aerospace’s position at forefront of next generation of sustainable aircraft technology

GKN Aerospace will lead a ground-breaking UK collaboration programme, called H2GEAR, to develop the company’s first hydrogen propulsion system for sub-regional aircraft.

Paris–French company Green Corp Konnection (GCK) has chosen to join forces with FEV – a leading engineering supplier globally – to design, develop and integrate its own high-performance fuel cell system. Its capacity will be showcased in motorsport before being deployed across other industrial areas. This announcement reinforces GCK’s commitment to playing a key role in the transformation towards zero emission mobility.

• LIBERTY Steel, Paul Wurth and SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar sign Memorandum of Understanding to develop a major hydrogen-based steel making plant in France
• Pan-European partnership will assess the development of a 1 GW hydrogen plant and 2 million tonne DRI plant next to the ALVANCE Aluminium Dunkerque site
• An important step in LIBERTY’s GREENSTEEL strategy and ambition to be carbon neutral by 2030

LIBERTY Steel Group, part of Sanjeev Gupta’s sustainable industry leader GFG Alliance, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Paul Wurth and SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar (SHS) to assess the building and operating of an industrial-sized, hydrogen-based steel making plant at Dunkerque in France. If developed, the plant would be one of the first operations of its type in France.

European supported project “IMMORTAL” launched to develop advanced fuel cell technology for heavy duty trucks with the goal of decarbonising freight transport.