BlueScope North Star Steel plant

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BlueScope North Star Steel plant is a steel plant in Delta, Ohio, United States that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

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  • Location: 6767 County Road 9, Delta, Ohio 43515, United States
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 41.568783, -84.048129 (exact)

Background

The North Star BlueScope Steel plant began operating in 1997 with the founding of its owner, North Star BlueScope. Around 2 million tonnes of hot rolled coil are produced annually in the facility. Originally owned partly by Cargill Inc. as well, in October 2015, BlueScope acquired the remaining 50 per cent of North Star BlueScope Steel from Cargill Inc. to move to full ownership of this business.[1]

Expansion

In August 2019, the company announced it would be financing a $700 million expansion to the facility, which would add 950 thousand metric tonnes of capacity to the plant.[2] In 2020, it halted expansion plans due to COVID-19 and announced it was lowering the expansion to 850 thousand tonnes instead, which pushed the completion date back.[3] Currently under construction, it is scheduled to be completed in 2022.[4]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Start date Workforce size
1996[5] 400[6]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
BlueScope Steel Ltd 4295858761 E100000130689 North Star BlueScope Steel Ltd[7] 4297319386 E100000130828

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment
finished rolled[8] coil[9] automotive, building and infrastructure, steel packaging, tools and machinery[10][11] 2023-10-01[10] EAF

Table 4: Plant-level Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

1Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status1 Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 3034[12][6][13][14] 3034[12][6][13][14]

Table 5: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year EAF production Other/unknown steel production
2019 unknown unknown
2020 unknown unknown
2021 unknown unknown
2022 unknown unknown

Unit Details

Table 6: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Furnace manufacturer and model Current capacity (ttpa) Current size (tonnes)
unknown EAF (1) operating[8][15] – Fuchs, Superior Machine Company of SC, Inc.[16] 1092[6][14] 180.0[8][15]
unknown EAF (2) operating[8][15] – Fuchs, Superior Machine Company of SC, Inc.[16] 1092[6][14] 180.0[8][15]
unknown EAF (3) operating[12][13] 2022 Fuchs, Superior Machine Company of SC, Inc.[16] 850[12][13] 195.0[17][18]

Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name Scrap-based % scrap % pig iron (unknown if basic/merchant or granulated
unknown EAF (1) yes[19] 78.00[20][19] 22.00[21][19]
unknown EAF (2) yes[19] 78.00[22][19] 22.00[23][19]
unknown EAF (3) yes[19] 78.00[24][19] 22.00[25][19]

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References

  1. ↑ "North Star BlueScope Steel - BlueScope Corporate". www.bluescope.com. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  2. ↑ "North Star getting $700M expansion". FULTON COUNTY EXPOSITOR. 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2021-10-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ Toto, DeAnne (2020-04-08). "BlueScope puts North Star expansion on hold". Recycling Today. Retrieved 2021-10-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ↑ BlueScope (2021). "BlueScope Sustainability Report" (PDF). BlueScope. Retrieved 2021-10-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220112115608/https://www.bluescope.com/about-us/our-business/north-star-bluescope-steel/. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220513035318/https://devresearch.ohio.gov/files/research/B1001.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-05-13. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220111165623/https://nsbsl.com/company/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20231030153120/https://www.bluescope.com/content/dam/bluescope/corporate/bluescope-com/sustainability/documents/2023_BlueScope_Report_Sustainability_Report.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-10-30. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220204141837/https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.north_star_bluescope_steel_llc.b61a58e7bef1afef116bd3f042b6e913.html. Archived from the original on 2022-02-04. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220120124631/https://nsbsl.com/what-we-do/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231030195155/https://www.bluescope.com/our-steel/our-products/industries. Archived from the original on 2023-10-30. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20211027023202/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/bluescope-corporate-umbraco-media/media/3307/bluescope-sustainability-report-2021.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-27. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20221015214019/https://www.bluescope.com/bluescope-news/2022/05/north-star-facility-expansion-boosts-production/. Archived from the original on 2022-10-15. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 (PDF) https://www.mohajersara.org/forum/attachment/3489_SteelPlant_NorthAmerica_AISI_version_June252013.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20230629205934/https://nsbsl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/NSBSBrochure.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-06-29. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Vtt35CBVFAJFBDgan2a9_CW56EKOw6D/view?usp=drive_link. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20211017212201/https://www.fastmarkets.com/article/3976913/bluescope-expansion-cant-finish-fast-enough-ceo-says. Archived from the original on 2021-10-17. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220702202243/https://www.industrialheating.com/articles/95491-north-star-bluescope-expansion-includes-eaf. Archived from the original on 2022-07-02. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 19.8 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240705233310/https://www.bluescope.com/content/dam/bluescope/corporate/bluescope-com/investor/documents/2023_bluescope_fy_report_annual_report.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 05 July 2024. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. ↑ AIST_EAF_2023
  21. ↑ AIST_EAF_2023
  22. ↑ AIST_EAF_2023
  23. ↑ AIST_EAF_2023
  24. ↑ AIST_EAF_2023
  25. ↑ AIST_EAF_2023

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