Gerdau Açominas Ouro Branco steel plant

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Gerdau Açominas Ouro Branco steel plant (Usina siderúrgica Gerdau Açominas (Portuguese)), also known as Ouro Branco steel plant, Presidente Artur Bernardes steel plant, is a blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) steel plant operating in Ouro Branco, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Location

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  • Location: Rod. MG-443, Km 7 s/n, Fazenda do Cadete, Ouro Branco - MG, 36420-000, Brazil
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): -20.543507, -43.752950 (exact)

Background

Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau S.A. is one of the Americas' leading producers of long steel, and one of the world's largest recyclers and special steel suppliers.[1] The Gerdau Açominas steel plant in Ouro Branco is the company's flagship Brazilian steelmaking facility, with installed capacity to produce 7.6 million tons of steel per year.[2][3]

Originally known as Usina Presidente Arthur Bernardes, the Açominas plant started operations in 1986.[4] Gerdau acquired an equity stake in the plant in 1997, and the assets of Gerdau and Açominas were merged in 2003 under the name Gerdau Açominas.[5]

Facilities at the Ouro Branco plant were significantly upgraded in 2007 with the addition of a second blast furnace and a second sintering plant. A second coking plant was commissioned the following year.[6]

In late 2019, Gerdau announced that it would invest in a major overhaul of Açominas' aging blast furnace #1 and its associated coking plant in 2020.[7]

The plant's product mix consists of slabs, plates, coiled plates, hot rolled sheets and coils, ingots, blooms and billets, medium and heavy structural shapes, and wire rods.[8] The unit exports its production to more than 40 countries, making it one of Brazil's largest steel exporters.[4]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size Iron ore source
Operating[9] 1986[10][11] 8500[12] Gerdau's Varzea do Lopes mine[13]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
Gerdau SA [100.0%] 5000004542 [100%] E100001010271 [33.5%] Gerdau Acominas SA[14] 4296998615 E100001010278

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[15] blooms, billets, slabs, plates, blocks, structural profiles, wire rod, hot rolled sheets and coils[11][15] automotive; building and infrastructure; energy; tools and machinery[10] 2022[16] BF, BOF[17][18] 2 coking plants (1986, 2008); 2 sinter plants (1986, 2007); 2 BOF (1986)[15][19]

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

*Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status* Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 4360 TTPA[20][21][22][23][24][17][25][20][21][22][23][24][17][25] 4360 TTPA[20][21][22][23][24][17][25][20][21][22][23][24][17][25]

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

*Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status* Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
operating 4348 TTPA[20][26][19][27][20][26][19][27] 4348 TTPA[20][26][19][27][20][26][19][27]

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

Sinter Coke
5497 TTPA[28] 2905 TTPA[20][28]

Table 7: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year BOF Production Total (all routes)
2020 2787 TTPA[14][15] 2787 TTPA[14][15]
2021 2759 TTPA[18][29] 2759 TTPA[18][29]
2022 2570 TTPA[30][25] 2570 TTPA

Table 8: Actual Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year BF Production Total (all routes)
2020 3191 TTPA[31] 3191 TTPA[31][32]
2021 3351 TTPA[33] 3351 TTPA[33][17]
2022 3162 TTPA[28][25] 3162 TTPA

Blast Furnace Details

Table 9: 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[15][19] unknown unknown 1986-07[34][10][35][36] Davy Ashmore[37][35] 2652 m³[37][35][38] 2815[20][26][19][27] unknown 2001-06[39]
2 operating[15][19] unknown 2005-11[40][27] 2007-10[19] CISDI[37][41] 1420 m³[37][42] 1533[20][26][19][27] unknown unknown

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