Simec Pindamonhangaba steel plant

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Simec Pindamonhangaba steel plant (Usina siderúrgica Simec Pindamonhangaba (Portuguese)) is an electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo, Brazil.

Location

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• Location: Rod. Vereador Abel Fabricio Dias, 4320, km 154, Água Preta - CEP 12445-010 - Pindamonhangaba - SP - Brasil
• Coordinates (WGS 84): -22.921912, -45.413234 (exact)

Background

One of Brazil's newest steel plants, Simec Pindamonhangaba represents the initial venture of Mexican steelmaker Grupo Simec into the Brazilian market. Grupo Simec acquired land for the plant in 2011, and signed deals the following year with SMS Concast and SMS Meer, respectively, to supply equipment for the melt shop and the adjacent bar and wire rod mill. The US $400 million project, located northeast of São Paulo, began commercial operations in November 2015, with an initial crude steelmaking capacity of 500 ttpa (thousand tonnes per annum). The plant manufactures rebar and other steel bars for the construction industry, along with wire rod for industrial uses.

Expansion project

In May 2021, Grupo Simec announced that it would invest US $300 million in expanding the Pindamonhangaba plant, adding a new rolling mill, installing updated EAF technology that will double the plant's crude steel production capacity from 500,000 to 1 million tpa, and creating 750 new jobs. Plans initially called for the plant expansion to be completed in 2023; however, the anticipated completion date was subsequently pushed back to mid-2024.

Between February and November 2024, Grupo Simec posted several videos documenting the expansion project's progress. However, as of December 2024 there had been no news of the project's completion and it appeared likely that the expanded plant would not begin operating until 2025.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Phase	Plant status	Start date	Workforce size
Main plant	Operating	2015	480
Expansion	Construction	2024	750

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Phase	Parent company	Parent company PermID	Parent company GEM ID	Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner company GEM ID
Main plant	Grupo Simec SAB de CV [100.0%]	4295884304 [100%]	E100000130728 [100%]	GV do Brasil Industria e Comercio de Aço Ltda	5037476219	E100000130990

Table 3: Process and Products

Phase	Steel product category	Steel products	Steel sector end users	Main production equipment	Detailed production equipment
Main plant	finished rolled	rebar, wire rod	building and infrastructure	EAF	1 SMS-Concast EAF (65-tonne, 2015)
Expansion	finished rolled	rebar, wire rod	building and infrastructure	EAF	EAF capacity to be doubled by 2024, specifics unknown

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.

Phase	Capacity operating status*	Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity	Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
Main plant	operating	500 TTPA	500 TTPA
Expansion	construction	500 TTPA	500 TTPA

Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

*Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.

Phase	Capacity operating status*
Main plant	operating
Expansion	construction

Table 6: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year	EAF Production	Total (all routes)
2020	449 TTPA	449 TTPA
2021	385 TTPA	385 TTPA
2022	397 TTPA	397 TTPA

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Resources

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