Grupo Gallardo Siderurgica Balboa Jerez de los Caballeros steel plant

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Grupo Gallardo Siderurgica Balboa Jerez de los Caballeros steel plant is an electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, Spain.

Location

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  • Location: Ctra. Zafra-Villanueva del Fresno, km.22,5. 06380 Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, Spain
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 38.326405, -6.767326 (exact)

Background

The Gallardo Group has invested approximately 500 million Euros to expand Siderurgica Balboa to twice its capacity, from 1.3 MTPA to 2.6 MTPA.[1]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
Operating[2] 1992[3] 600[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
Grupo Gallardo Balboa SL [100.0%] 5071085303 [100%] E100000131060 [100%] Ag Siderurgica Balboa SA[2] 4296696861 E100000130794

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[5] round bar, profiles, wire[5] 1905-07-13 00:00:00[6] 1905-07-15 00:00:00[7] EAF[4] 1 EAF[8][4]

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* Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 1300 TTPA[9][4][8] 1300 TTPA[9][4][8]

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References

  1. "Siderurgica Balboa". Grupo AG. Archived from the original on January 12, 2022. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240115050333/https://siderbalboa.es/. Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20240115060550/https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_93_1132. Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20240115061805/https://siderbalboa.es/compromiso-trayectoria-siderurgica/. Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. 5.0 5.1 https://siderbalboa.es/producto/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. (PDF) https://comunicacion.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/MARKETING+CORPORATIVO/BALBOA/BALBOA+CERTIFICADOS+MEDIO+AMBIENTE/MEDIO+AMBIENTE/CertificadoGA-2009-0388_ES_2021-06-18.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. (PDF) https://comunicacion.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/MARKETING+CORPORATIVO/BALBOA/BALBOA+CERTIFICADOS+MEDIO+AMBIENTE/MEDIO+AMBIENTE/CertificadoGE-2023-0026_ES_2023-05-08.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220318115528/https://www.eurofer.eu/assets/Uploads/Map-20191113_Eurofer_SteelIndustry_Rev3-has-stainless.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220630073500/https://eurometal.net/spain-data-steel-production-drops-23-in-march-amid-strikes-energy-spike/. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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