Celsa France Boucau steel plant

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Celsa France Boucau steel plant, also known as Acierie de l'Atlantique, Celsa France Bayonne, is a steel plant in Boucau, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

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  • Location: Celsa France, Rond Point Claudius Magnin, F-64340, Boucau, France
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 43.529693, -1.500971 (exact)

Background

Steel production at Celsa France is scrap-based.[1]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Start date Workforce size
1965[2] 265[3]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
Anchorage Capital Advisors LP; Anchorage Capital Group LLC; Attestor Services Ltd; Deutsche Bank AG; GoldenTree Asset Management LP; Midwood Holdings LLC 5087215566; 5000008410; 5061209241; 4295869482; 5000034523; 5064670557 E100002003621; E100002003627; E100002003626; E100000136992; E100002003622; E100002003624 Celsa France SAS[4] 4296807624 E100001010273

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment
semi-finished, finished rolled[5] billet, rolled[6] automotive, building and infrastructure, energy, transport[7] unknown[8] 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 1200[9] 1200[9]

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

Year EAF production Other/unknown steel production Total (all routes)
2019 unknown unknown
2020 unknown unknown
2021 625[10] [10] 625[10]
2022 unknown unknown
2023 549[11] [11] 549[11]

Unit Details

Table 6: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Current capacity (ttpa) Current size (tonnes)
unknown EAF (1) operating[3] 1996[12] 1200[9] 150.0[13][14]

Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name Scrap-based % scrap
unknown EAF (1) yes[15] 100.00[16]

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References

  1. Preamble, Celsa Group, Retrieved on: Jul. 16, 2020
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20211219211718/http://celsafrance.com/Celsa.mvc/Historique. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. 3.0 3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240111012658/https://www.celsagroup.com/en/executive-report-interactive/. Archived from the original on 2024-01-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20220318121654/http://www.celsafrance.com/. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. http://www.celsafrance.com/?appIdioma=en. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20240111031811/https://www.celsafrance.com/. Archived from the original on 2024-01-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20220118064725/https://www.celsagroup.com/en/about-us/figures/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20211202212140/http://celsafrance.com/Pdf/fr/Certificat%2014001_2019.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-02. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Map of EU steel production sites" (PDF). Eurofer. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-18.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 "CELSA Group recovers pre-pandemic production with more than 6.5 Mt of steel produced in its European steel mills". CELSA Group. 2022-02-25. Archived from the original on 2022-07-07.
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 (PDF) https://celsanordic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/memoria_celsa_2023_completa-01102024-final_en-eg.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. https://www.a3ms.fr/en/adherent/celsa-france. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20220930165028/https://eurometal.net/celsa-invests-further-into-french-plant/. Archived from the original on 2022-09-30. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20220318100437/http://www.celsafrance.com/Productos.mvc/Modedefabrication?. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. (PDF). 2021-12-31 https://web.archive.org/web/20240119094459/https://www.celsagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/sustainability-report-2021.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-01-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. https://web.archive.org/web/20240809200559/https://api.environdec.com/api/v1/EPDLibrary/Files/3dfeefb1-9eee-4322-8187-08dbb657dbae/Data. Archived from the original on 2024-08-09. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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