A3M and FEDERREC sign France’s first Green Steel Pact focused on scrap supply and low-emission demand

A3M said it jointly developed and signed the sector pact with FEDERREC. The five workstreams are to support demand for low-CO₂ steel, facilitate recycled-material supplies to French steelworks, improve recycled-material quality, establish economic and financial tools to secure investment, and have recycling recognised as a strategic industrial sector. No signing date, implementation timetable or binding legal provisions were specified in the supplied material.

• A3M is the sole source for the announcement and the details supplied.
• A3M says French steel production fell from about 15 million tonnes in 2017 to 10 million tonnes in 2025 and could recover to between 12 million and 14 million tonnes over the next decade; these figures and the outlook are not independently corroborated in the supplied material.
• The pact links steel-sector decarbonisation with recycling policy, mill feedstock access and investment security.

Look for implementation schedules, funding mechanisms, measurable scrap-quality or supply commitments, low-emission steel demand measures, and clarification of whether any provisions are binding. Also monitor evidence supporting A3M’s projected recovery in French steel output.