Rio Tinto Fer et Titane steel plant

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Rio Tinto Fer et Titane steel plant, also known as Rio Tinto Quebec, QIT-Fer et Titatane Inc. (predecessor), is a steel plant in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada that operates basic oxygen furnace (BOF) technology.

Location

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• Location: 1625, Marie-Victorin Road, Sorel-Tracy Quebec J3R 1M6, Canada
• Coordinates (WGS 84): 46.044367, -73.138474 (exact)

Background

The Rio Tinto Fer et Titane steel plant began operating in 1986. The facility also refines titanium dioxide. In February 2021, Rio Tinto announced they would be exploring the production of a low-carbon steel feedstock at their steel plant sites in Canada along with Paul Wurth (a Luxembourg-based engineering company) and SHS-Stahl-Holding-Saar (a management holding of the two large Saarland-based steel companies). In October 2021, Rio Tinto Fer et Titante announced that some of their facilities had switched to using plant matter known as lignocellulosic biomass, instead of coal, as a chemical reductant in the steel-making process in the hopes of cutting the steel industry's emissions.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Start date	Workforce size
1950	1400

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company	Parent company PermID	Parent company GEM ID	Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner company GEM ID
Rio Tinto PLC	4295894786	E100000001119	Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium Canada Inc	5071504912	E100000131063

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category	Steel sector end users	ISO 14001	ISO 50001	Main production equipment
semi-finished, finished rolled	automotive, energy	unknown	unknown	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	600	600

Unit Details

Table 5: Basic Oxygen Furnace Details

Unit name	Status	Start date	Current capacity (ttpa)	Current size
unknown BOF (1)	operating	1986	600	115.0 tonnes

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