Grupo Gallardo Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant
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Grupo Gallardo Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant is a steel plant in Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa, Spain that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.
Location
The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa, Spain:
- Location: Errekalde Kalea, 1, Landeta Auzoa, 20730 Azpeitia (Guipúzcoa), Spain
- Coordinates (WGS 84): 43.179125, -2.255939 (exact)
Background
The Grupo Gallardo Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant was bought in 2005 by the Grupo Gallardo.[1]
In 2013, Grupo Gallardo announced that due to a lack of local demand and losses of more than 100 million Euros, it would completely shut down the Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant, while cutting down the workforce at its other plants.[2][3] It did so later that year, firing the 330 workers working on the site at the time.[4][5] In 2017, Grupo Gallardo considered reopening the plant, but it seems that plan fell through.[3] As of 2022, it remains idled.
In 2020, the Cristian Lay Industrial Group acquired Gallardo Balboa, including the Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant. They announced they would invest 50 million euros to reopen the Azpeitia plant, which would create an estimated 200 direct and 500 indirect jobs. They envision that opening the plant would in turn help build wind power capacity.[5][6]
Plant Details
Table 1: General Plant Details
| Retired date | Workforce size |
|---|---|
| 2013[7] | 300[8] |
Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Parent company GEM ID | Owner | Owner company PermID | Owner company GEM ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cristian Lay SL [100.0%] | 4296783017 [100.0%] | E100001012221 [100.0%] | Cristian Lay SL [100%][7] | 4296783017 | E100001012221 [100%] |
Table 3: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | Main production equipment |
|---|---|---|
| semi-finished, finished rolled[9] | billet, coil, rebar[9] | EAF |
Table 4: Plant-level Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status1 | Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| retired | 800[9][10] | 800[9][10] |
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 |
| 2023 | unknown | unknown |
Unit Details
Table 6: Electric Arc Furnace Details
| Unit name | Status | Retired date | Current capacity (ttpa) |
|---|---|---|---|
| unknown EAF (1) | retired[7] | 2013[7] | 800[9][10] |
Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details
| Unit name | Scrap-based | % scrap | % DRI | % HBI | % sponge iron (unknown if DRI or HBI) | % basic/merchant pig iron | % granulated pig iron | % pig iron (unknown if basic/merchant or granulated | % other iron |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown EAF (1) | None | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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References
- ↑ "Alfonso Gallardo commissions new CR mill | Metal Bulletin.com". Metal Bulletin. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Spain's Grupo Alfonso Gallardo to cut jobs due to lackluster demand". Steel Orbis. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "El Grupo Gallardo baraja reapertura de Corrugados Azpeitia tras 4 años de cierre". Hoy (in español). 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ↑ "Gallardo closes Corrugados Azpeitia and fires 330 workers". El Pais. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 Txintxurreta, Max (2021-03-21). "The pulse between the legal and the illegal to reopen Corrugados Azpeitia". Naiz. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "CL wants to invest 50 million to reopen Corrugados and would create 700 jobs". Archyde. 2021-03-13. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20240115050405/https://www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.eus/economia/2021/06/22/corrugados-azpeitia-cronologia-fracaso-3684616.html. Archived from the original on 2024-01-15.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220318143609/https://www.naiz.eus/eu/info/noticia/20210321/el-pulso-entre-lo-legal-y-lo-ilegal-para-reabrir-corrugados-azpeitia. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20220320121307/http://www.grupoag.es/corrugadosazpeitia_en/empresa/empresa.php. Archived from the original on 2022-03-20.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Map of EU steel production sites" (PDF). Eurofer. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-18.
