The HBI C-Flex Project at ESTAD 2025!

On October 7th, 2025, our colleague Sergej Nesterov from the Technical University of Leoben presented the HBI C-Flex project at the ESTAD Conference in Italy with a poster on the reoxidation behaviour of Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI).

As the use of Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) and HBI increases, understanding how these materials react under different storage and transport conditions becomes crucial. In collaboration with ArcelorMittal Maizières Research, CRM, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, and Technical University of Leoben, the study investigates how temperature and humidity influence HBI reoxidation using different climatic conditions as higher temperature, humid and saturated atmosphere.

🧾 The full poster is available here: 250929_Poster_ESTAD_fin