Koc Metallurgical Toprakkale plant

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Koc Metallurgical Toprakkale plant (Koç Metalurji A.Ş. (Turkish), Koç Çelik (Turkish, predecessor)), also known as Koc Steel (predecessor), is an electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Toprakkale, Osmaniye, Türkiye.

Location

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  • Location: Osmaniye Organize Sanayi Bölgesi Büyüktüysüz mh. Ali İlbeyli cd. No:17 Toprakkale/Osmaniye, Türkiye
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 37.014880, 36.104416 (exact)

Background

This steel plant was founded as Koç Çelik in 2013. In 2016, the name was changed to Koç Metalurji (Koc Metallurgy). Koç Rolling Mill (Koç Haddehan), which was founded in 1993 is also now part of Koç Metalurji.[1]

Production at the plant is scrap-based.[1]

Operations

Koc Metallurgical plant halted production in September 2019.[2] The plant resumed operations in November 2019 at less than half capacity.[3]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
Operating[4] 2012[5] 430[6]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
Koc Metalurji AS[7] 5080034375 E100000131090

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[6] billet, rebar[6] EAF[6] 1 EAF (100-tonne, 100 MVA)[6]

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 1200 TTPA[8] 1200 TTPA[8]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 KOÇ METALURJİ A.Ş., Turkish Steel Producers Association, Retrieved on: Jul. 28, 2020
  2. Koc Metallurgy to halt production in fourth quarter, Kallanish Commodities, Sep. 5, 2019, Retrieved on: Jul. 28, 2020
  3. Koc Metallurgy resumes production at below half capacity, Kallanish Commodities, Nov. 29, 2019, Retrieved on: Jul. 28, 2020
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20240119030347/https://eurometal.net/mmk-koc-metalurji-in-southern-turkey-resume-steel-production-after-earthquakes/. Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20220624230837/https://www.steelorbis.com/steel-companies/company/kocmetalurjias/. Archived from the original on 24 June 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20220706030407/http://celik.org.tr/en/koc-metalurji-a-s/. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20220112165627/https://celik.org.tr/en/koc-metalurji-a-s/. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. 8.0 8.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240125062618/https://kocmetalurji.com.tr/. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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