CONROE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hertha Metals today broke ground on Hertha Chalyx, its first commercial plant, designed to produce about 10,000 metric tons a year of steel-grade and magnet-grade high-purity iron combined. Built next to Hertha’s Pi100 pilot plant, Chalyx forms the first modern iron and steel innovation complex in the U.S., where Hertha will develop and scale its process for making primary iron and steel. Hertha developed the world’s first single-step process for making iron and