Egyptian Iron & Steel Company Cairo plant

From Global Energy Monitor

Egyptian Iron & Steel Company Cairo plant (شركة الحديد والصلب المصرية (Arabic)), also known as Hadisolb, is a 3200 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) retired steel plant in Helwan, Cairo, Egypt.

Location

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  • Location: Eltabin, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 29.774458, 31.312013 (exact)

Background

The Egyptian Iron & Steel Company plant in Cairo started its operation in 1957. It is considered one of the oldest public sector companies in Egypt. In January of 2021, the government took a decision to liquidate the company due to losses of nearly $450 millions.[2]


Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Closed date Iron ore source
retired[1] 1957[3] 2021[4] Baharia mines, Ghorabi, El Hara, Nasser

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

State-owned entity status State-owned entity department Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
full[5] Metallurgical Industries Holding[5] Egyptian Iron & Steel Company SAE [100%][1][5] 4295866262 [100%] Egyptian Iron & Steel Company SAE[1] 4295866262

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[6] hot-rolled, cold-rolled, strip, rolls, rebar, iron ore[6] blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF)[3] 2 sinter plants (began in 1958 and 1960); 4 BOF (3 90-tonne BOF (began in 1973), 1 BOF (began in 2007))[3]

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

Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
3200 TTPA[7] 3200 TTPA

Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
1400 TTPA[3] 1400 TTPA

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter
3000 TTPA[3]


Blast Furnace Details

Table 7: Blast Furnace Details:

Unit name Status Start date Stop date Current size Current capacity
1 retired[8] 1958[8] 2021[8] 575 m³[3] 200 TTPA[3]
2 retired[8] 1960[8] 2021[8] 575 m³[3] 200 TTPA[3]
3 retired[8] 1972[8] 2021[8] 1033 m³[3] 500 TTPA[9]
4 retired[8] 1977[8] 2021[8] 1033 m³[3] 500 TTPA[3]

Articles and Resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20220112160428/http://www.hadisolb.com/hadisolb_en.html. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "Egypt closes national iron and steel company ahead of liquidation". Middle East Monitor. 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220126162010/http://www.hadisolb.com/pdf/Egyption_Iron_&_Steel_Company_DOC/Egyption_Iron_&_Steel_Company_EN.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-26. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20210809135419/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210601-egypt-closes-national-iron-and-steel-company-ahead-of-liquidation/. Archived from the original on 2021-08-09. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220111142023/https://www.reuters.com/companies/IRON.CA. Archived from the original on 2022-01-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. 6.0 6.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20211205084952/http://hadisolb.com/. Archived from the original on 2021-12-05. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20211214113744/https://www.arabnews.com/node/1986211/business-economy. Archived from the original on 2021-12-14. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 https://web.archive.org/web/20220509010751/https://egyptwatch.net/2021/06/04/workers-of-egyptian-iron-steel-co-demonstrate-over-factorys-closure/. Archived from the original on 2022-05-09. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220126162010/http://www.hadisolb.com/pdf/Egyption_Iron_&_Steel_Company_DOC/Egyption_Iron_&_Steel_Company_EN.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-26. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Additional data

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