Nucor develops sustainable steel for offshore wind energy applications

Nucor has introduced Elcyon, a sustainable heavy-gauge steel plate product designed to meet the rigorous quality standards of offshore wind energy designers, manufacturers, and fabricators. The company will manufacture the material at its new Brandenburg steel mill in Kentucky.

This steel product is made using Nucor’s recycled scrap-based electric arc furnace manufacturing process. This circular steelmaking process has a greenhouse gas emissions intensity that is one-fifth the global blast furnace extractive steelmaking average, based on Scope 1 and 2 emissions.

The material is characterized by larger plate dimensions, improved weldability, and excellent fracture toughness, according to the company.