ArcelorMittal Florange steel plant
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ArcelorMittal Florange steel plant is a blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) retired steel plant in Florange, Grand Est, France.
Location
The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Florange, Grand Est, France:
- Location: ArcelorMittal Atlantique et Lorraine, Florange site, 17, avenue des Tilleuls, 57190 Florange, France
- Coordinates (WGS 84): 49.331722, 6.143107 (exact)
Background
In 2013, all the sintering, blast furnace, and basic-oxygen furnace plants were idled indefinitely due to economic conditions that forced ArcelorMittal to cut costs.[1] 629 employees were fired, with other employees either moved to other operations or retiring from the plant; €180 million was invested into the coking plant to keep it running.[2] Protests had been ongoing since 2012 to prevent the closing of the plants, but to no avail.[3]
In 2020, the last coking plant was also closed due to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, which had been providing coke to ArcelorMittal's Dunkirk site.[4]
In 2021, ArcelorMittal was fined 150,000 Euros for two instances of pollution of the Fensch river that occurred in 2019.[5]
Plant Details
Table 1: General Plant Details
| Plant status | Start date | Idled date | Retired date | Workforce size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retired[6][7][7] | 1906[8] | 2013[6][7] | 2018[6][7] | 2300[9] |
Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Parent company GEM ID | Owner | Owner company PermID | Owner company GEM ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcelorMittal SA [100.0%] | 5000030092 [100%] | E100001000348 [5%] | Arcelormittal Atlantique et Lorraine SASU[10] | 4298163524 | E100001000487 |
Table 3: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | ISO 50001 | Main production equipment | Detailed production equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| semi-finished; finished rolled[11] | slabs; hot rolled products; coil[11] | yes[12] | BF, BOF[10] | 1 coking plant; 2 sintering plants (mothballed in 2013); 2 BOF (mothballed in 2013)[13][10][14] |
Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status* | Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| retired | 2400 TTPA[15][15] | 2400 TTPA[15][15] |
Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status* | Blast furnace capacity | Nominal iron capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| retired | 2847 TTPA[15][15] | 2847 TTPA[15][15] |
Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Sinter | Coke |
|---|---|
| 4400 TTPA[15] | 700 TTPA[15] |
Blast Furnace Details
Table 7: Blast Furnace Details
| Unit name | Status | Announced date | Construction date | Start date | Retired date | Current capacity (ttpa) | Decarbonization technology | Most recent relining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P3 | retired[13][10][14] | unknown | unknown | 1975[16] | 2011-07[7][7][13] | 1423[15] | Before closure, there were plans to run a trial C02 storage program with the furnace under the ULCOS II project. [17] | unknown |
| P6 | retired[13][10][14] | unknown | unknown | 1975[16] | 2011-10[7][7][13] | 1423[15] | Before closure, there were plans to run a trial C02 storage program with the furnace under the ULCOS II project. [17] | unknown |
Articles and Resources
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References
- ↑ Reed, Stanley (2013-02-06). "ArcelorMittal, Announcing Loss, Indicates No Further Plant Closures in Europe". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ Smith, Tim (2013-04-16). "Mothballing of Florange's liquid phase". Steel Times International. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Willsher, Kim (2012-10-05). "French steelworkers warn blockade is a last stand to save the industry". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "ArcelorMittal Florange shutters coke plant". EUROMETAL. 2020-04-08. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Teller Report". Teller Report. 2021-01-06. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 (PDF) https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/media/3z1ozw5h/arcelor-mittal-fact-book-2021.pdf.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 https://web.archive.org/web/20181212235958/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arcelormittal-france/arcelormittal-confirms-french-furnace-closures-idUSBRE8900J320121001. Archived from the original on 12 December 2018.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240131193235/https://www.bcd-urbex.com/florange-blast-furnaces-and-steel-works-france/. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220120173230/https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/grand-est/coronavirus-salaries-arcelormittal-florange-denoncent-pression-leur-direction-aller-travailler-1806230.html. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20220111143046/https://flateurope.arcelormittal.com/ourmills/704/176. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220111143025/https://flateurope.arcelormittal.com/ourmills/704/dunkerque. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220629172247/https://france.arcelormittal.com/news/2018/nov/nouvelle-centrale-de-production-de-vapeur-a-florange.aspx. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220121144844/https://factbook2018.arcelormittal.com/~/media/Files/A/Arcelormittal-Factbook-2018/AM_FactBook_2018.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20211103044419/https://corporate-media.arcelormittal.com/media/4sjfifdj/factbook-2019.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 03 November 2021.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 15.00 15.01 15.02 15.03 15.04 15.05 15.06 15.07 15.08 15.09 15.10 15.11 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220922003449/https://storagearcelormittalprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/pevb5bum/arcelormittal_fb2014.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 16.0 16.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20230313160446/http://www.darbiansphotography.com/florange-blast-furnaces-urbex. Archived from the original on 13 March 2023.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 17.0 17.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20181101060437/https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/isijinternational/55/1/55_7/_pdf. Archived from the original on 01 November 2018.
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