Gerdau Açominas Ouro Branco steel plant

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

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, -43.75295 (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

Start date Workforce size Iron ore source
1986[9][10] 8500[11][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 [100.0%] E100001010270 [100.0%] Gerdau Acominas SA [100%][14] 4296998615 E100001010278 [100%]

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Responsible steel Main production equipment
semi-finished, finished rolled[15] wire rod, sheet, plate, bloom, billet, coil, slab, profile[15][9] automotive, building and infrastructure, energy, tools and machinery[10] 2022-09-14[16] unknown[17] unknown[18] BF; BOF

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 Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 4360[19][20][21][22][23][24][25] 4360[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]

Table 5: Plant-level Crude Iron 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 Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
operating 4348[23][26][27][28] 4348[23][26][27][28]

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

Ferronickel Sinter Coke Pellets
NF 5462[29] 2905[23] NF

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

Year BOF production Total (all routes)
2019 2824[15][14] 2824[15][14]
2020 2787[15][14] 2787[15][14]
2021 2759[30][21] 2759[30][21]
2022 2570[31][20] 2570[31][20]
2023 2549[32][33] 2549[32][33]

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

Year BF production Total (all routes)
2019 3160[34][35] 3160[34][35]
2020 3191[34][14] 3191[34][14]
2021 3351[36][21] 3351[36][21]
2022 3162[37][20] 3162[37][20]
2023 3127[29][32] 3127[29][32]

Unit Details

Table 9: Blast Furnace Details

Unit name Status Construction date Start date Furnace manufacturer and model Current size Current capacity (ttpa) Decarbonization technology Most recent relining
BF 1 operating[15][27] – 1986[38][39][40][10] Davy Ashmore[40][41] 2652.0 m3[42][40][41] 2815[27][28][26][23] unknown 2001-06[43]
BF 2 operating[15][27] 2005-11[44][28] 2007[27] CISDI[45][41] 1420.0 m3[41][46] 1533[27][28][26][23] unknown –

Table 10: Basic Oxygen Furnace Details

Unit name Status Current capacity (ttpa)
unknown BOF (1) operating 2180[25][22][23][24][20][19][21]
unknown BOF (2) operating 2180[25][22][23][24][20][19][21]

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