• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

José Fonrouge

Ternium

Global Sustainability Senior Director

José Fonrouge currently serves as Global Director of Sustainability at Ternium and is leading the company’s decarbonization strategy. With more than 20 years working in the steel environmental management sector, Fonrouge has an environmental engineer degree from the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) and a postgraduate in environmental technology and management from the Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI+UCA) in Spain. Fonrouge also serves as Vice President of the Environmental Department of the Argentine Industrial Association and is the chairman of the Environmental Policy Committee of Worldsteel Association (worldsteel) and Alacero.

Sessions With José Fonrouge

Monday, 18 March

  • 12:30pm - 01:10pm (CST) / 18/mar/2024 05:30 pm - 18/mar/2024 06:10 pm

    Lifecycle Sustainability and Circularity in EVs

    Transportation & Mobility/Electrification (EVs/built environment)

    From the mining of materials to the components that make up electric vehicles (EVs), and finally to the customer who reuses the vehicle, a greater emphasis is now placed on sustainability and circularity. What are some of the many examples which can showcase this? 

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 02:00pm - 02:30pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 07:00 pm - 20/mar/2024 07:30 pm

    Ternium | Steel for the Future of Mobility

    Ternium is a leading flat and long steel producer with a strong presence in the Americas. The company is now investing US$ 2.2 billion in a new steel shop that will have 2.1 million tons of DRI capacity, with 2.6 million tons of slabs mainly for automotive customers. By replacing slabs produced through the BF-BOF route with slabs from DRI-EAF route, the mill will achieve a lower CO2 emission intensity while meeting automotive-grade steel requirements.  

Thursday, 21 March

  • 01:30pm - 02:00pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 06:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 07:00 pm

    Innovations in Sustainable Steel
    Digitalization/AI/Machine Learning/Robotics/Cybersecurity

    Steel is often perceived as among the most difficult of the so-called “hard-to-abate” sectors. And yet, steel plants can greatly improve their carbon footprints by using techniques that include digitalization; hydrogen- and direct-reduced iron processes to eliminate the use of coal, reduction of heat loss in the casting and rolling process or recycled waste gases and heat. What sustainability philosophies and techniques are gaining the most traction in this industry? How are innovators driving the necessary changes? What is the outlook for widespread adoption of these new techniques?

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