The world’s iron and steel producers need a paradigm change for the future to fulfill environmental regulations and to cope with raw material availabilities and final product qualities. The ENERGIRON® technology has been characterized by innovation and this paper outlines the novel Tenova High Purity Pig Iron production process that starts with the reduction of iron-oxide pellets in a gas-based direct reduction module and follows with high-carbon-direct reduced iron melting in an electric furnace, specifically designed to produce pig iron. The carbon footprint is thereby reduced by about 50% for ironmaking of integrated steel mills, while keeping the basic oxygen furnace and downstream facilities unchanged.