Gerdau Cartersville steel plant

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Gerdau Cartersville steel plant is a steel plant in Cartersville, Georgia, United States that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

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  • Location: 384 Old Grassdale Rd NE, Cartersville, GA 30121, United States
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 34.241226, -84.799539 (exact)

Background

The Gerdau Cartersville steel plant was built in 1975 by Atlantic Steel. It was purchased by Birmingham Steel in 1996, and was then bought by Gerdau in 2002.[1] It produces semi-finished and finished rolled steel products for the building /infrastructure, steel packaging, and transport.[2] Unfortunately, not a lot of other information about this plant is publicly available.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Start date Workforce size
1996[3] 887[4]

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 5000004542 E100001010270 Gerdau Ameristeel Corp[5] 4295861819 E100001010298

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment
semi-finished, finished rolled[5] angle, channel, flat[5] building and infrastructure, steel packaging, transport[5] 2024-11-15[6] 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 908[7][8] 908[7][8]

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

Year EAF production Other/unknown steel production
2019 unknown unknown
2020 unknown unknown
2021 unknown unknown
2022 unknown unknown

Unit Details

Table 6: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Furnace manufacturer and model Current capacity (ttpa) Current size (tonnes)
unknown EAF (1) operating[9] 1990[10] Demag, Rev. Superior Machine[10] 908[7][8] 104.0[10]

Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name Scrap-based % scrap
unknown EAF (1) yes[9] 100.00[9][10]

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Additional data

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References

  1. "Local Gerdau Mill Celebrates Steel Day | Cartersville - Bartow". Location of Choice. 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2021-11-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Home GLN | Gerdau Website". www2.gerdau.com. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20220119070018/https://locationofchoice.com/index.php/news/article/545. Archived from the original on 2022-01-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "Gerdau S.A. Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023". US Securities & Exchange Commission. 2024-03-28. Archived from the original on 2024-06-03. Retrieved 2024-05-31.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20240125061725/https://www2.gerdau.com/. Archived from the original on 2024-01-25. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20220210174258/http://www2.gerdau.com/products-and-resources/certifications. Archived from the original on 2022-02-10. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220121033116/https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2089811-arcelormittal-gerdau-idle-mills-update. Archived from the original on 2022-01-21. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 (PDF) https://www.mohajersara.org/forum/attachment/3489_SteelPlant_NorthAmerica_AISI_version_June252013.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240916180255/https://www2.gerdau.com/sites/gln_gerdau/files/downloadable_files/epd_gerdau_cartersville_structural_steel.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-09-16. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Vtt35CBVFAJFBDgan2a9_CW56EKOw6D/view?usp=drive_link. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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