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CAP Acero Huachipato steel plant (Planta siderúrgica Huachipato (Spanish)) is a blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) steel plant operating in Talcahuano, Concepción, Chile.
Location
The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Talcahuano, Concepción, Chile:
- Location: Av. Gran Bretaña 2910, Huachipato, Talcahuano, Chile
- Coordinates (WGS 84): -36.746421, -73.129171 (exact)
Background
The CAP Acero steel plant, known in Spanish as Siderúrgica Huachipato, is Chile's only integrated steel mill.[1] It is owned and operated by Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato S.A., the steelmaking division of Grupo CAP (Compañía de Acero del Pacífico, or Pacific Steel Company), a leader in Chile's iron mining and steel making industries.[2]
CAP was founded in 1946 as a joint venture between the Chilean government agency CORFO (33%), the Caja Autónoma de Amortización de la Deuda Pública (14%), and private shareholders (53%). The company, renamed Grupo de Empresas CAP in 1981, was entirely privatized in 1987.[3] Construction of the steel plant began in early 1947, and it was officially inaugurated on November 25, 1950.[4]
Since 1950 CAP has maintained its position as Chile's leading steel producer and processor, while steadily modernizing and upgrading its infrastructure.[1] [5] The plant's blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace system is fed with iron ore from CAP's own mines. The plant's continuous casting facilities and rolling mill transform the resulting steel into slabs, billets, and a variety of products destined for national and international markets, including cold- and hot-rolled steel, grinding bars, rebar, and wire rod for use in construction, mining and other industries.[6][7]
In 2013, the plant's blast furnace No. 2 was idled as part of a company-wide cost-cutting plan, but the furnace was reportedly brought back online in April 2019.[8]
Low-emissions/green steelmaking
This steel plant is associated with a green steel project tracked in the Green Steel Tracker. Details about the project are included below.
Table 1: Green Steel Project Details
| Project 1 | |
|---|---|
| Company | Compania Siderurgica Huachipato SA |
| Company has climate goals? | No |
| Location | Hualpén, Chile |
| Project name | H2V CAP |
| Project website | Site |
| Project scale | Pilot |
| Project status | Announced |
| Year to be online | 2030 |
| Technology to be used | H-DRI |
| Technology details | Not stated |
| Iron production capacity (million tonnes per year) | 0 |
| Steel production capacity (million tonnes per year) | Not stated |
| CO2 capture (million tonnes CO2 per year) | Not applicable |
| Hydrogen generation capacity(MW) | 17 |
| Investment size | 3.6 |
| Partners | Paul Wurth Italia SpA (SMS Group), Corfo |
| Date of announcement | 2023-03-23 |
Plant Details
Table 2: General Plant Details
| Plant status | Start date | Workforce size | Iron ore source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating[9] | 1950[10] | 1193[11] | El Romeral iron mine, other iron mines owned by CAP Minería[12] |
Table 3: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Parent company GEM ID | Owner | Owner company PermID | Owner company GEM ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAP SA [100.0%] | 4295863321 [100%] | E100001000728 [100%] | Compania Siderurgica Huachipato SA[13] | 5000030020 | E100000130911 |
Table 4: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | Steel sector end users | ISO 14001 | ISO 50001 | Main production equipment | Detailed production equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| finished rolled[13] | grinding rods, wire rod, concrete reinforcing bars, special steels[9] | automotive; building and infrastructure; tools and machinery[14] | 1905-07-13 00:00:00[15] | 1905-07-13 00:00:00[16] | BF, BOF[17] | coking plant (58 Otto Twin Flue vertical ovens, 1990); 2 BOF (1975)[17][18] |
Table 5: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status* | Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| operating | 1450 TTPA[19][19] | 1450 TTPA[19][19] |
Table 6: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status* | Blast furnace capacity | Nominal iron capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| operating | 1481 TTPA[20][21] | 1481 TTPA[20][21] |
Table 7: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Coke |
|---|
| 500 TTPA[22][19] |
Table 8: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Year | BOF Production | Total (all routes) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 801 TTPA[18] | 801 TTPA[18] |
| 2021 | 833 TTPA[23] | 833 TTPA[23] |
| 2022 | 701 TTPA[24][25] | 701 TTPA |
Table 9: Actual Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Year | BF Production | Total (all routes) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 664 TTPA[18][26] | 664 TTPA[18] |
| 2021 | 695 TTPA[25] | 695 TTPA[26] |
| 2022 | 625 TTPA[25] | 625 TTPA |
Blast Furnace Details
Table 10: Blast Furnace Details
| Unit name | Status | Announced date | Construction date | Start date | Furnace manufacturer and model | Current size | Current capacity (ttpa) | Decarbonization technology | Most recent relining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | operating[27] | unknown | unknown | 1950[17][18][28] | Brassert[28] | 755 m³[22] | 730[20] | unknown | unknown |
| 2 | operating[27][17][18][29] | unknown | unknown | 1966[17][18][28] | Koppers[28] | 881 m³[22] | 751[21] | unknown | 2019-04[30] |
Articles and Resources
Additional data
To access additional data, including an interactive map of steel power plants, a downloadable dataset, and summary data, please visit the Global Steel Plant Tracker on the Global Energy Monitor website.
References
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "CAP Chile". CAP S.A. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Memoria Anual 2020" (PDF). CAP. March 30, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Chilean steelmaker CAP restarts blast furnace after six years: sources". S&P Global Platts. April 30, 2019.
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