Ternium Guerrero San Nicolás de los Garza steel plant

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Ternium Guerrero San Nicolás de los Garza steel plant (Planta Ternium Guerrero, Planta Ternium Nuevo León), also known as Ternium Monterrey steel plant, Hylsa, Hylsamex (predecessor), is a steel plant in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico that operates direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico:

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  • Location: Avenida Guerrero Norte 151, Colonia Cuauhtémoc, San Nicolás de los Garza 66452, Nuevo León, Mexico
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 25.720327, -100.301175 (exact)

Background

Originally known as Hylsa (an acronym for Hojalata y Lámina S.A.), the San Nicolás de los Garza steel plant was founded in June 1942 to make bottle caps for local beer company Cervecería Cuauhtémoc, which was unable to import sufficient steel during WWII. Production rapidly increased and diversifed throughout the 1940s, and by 1950 the plant was already supplying steel to 900 industrial clients in Mexico.[1]

By the late 1950s, shortages of scrap metal prompted the company to develop a new gas-based method for producing direct reduced iron (DRI). Known as the Hyl process, Hylsa's pioneering DRI technology was patented in 1957, and San Nicolás de los Garza became the world's first steel plant to adopt it for large-scale commercial use.[2][3]

In 1974, the Hylsa plant became the hub of the newly founded Alfa industrial group.[1] In 2005 Hylsa was sold to the Italian-Argentine conglomerate Techint, and in 2006 it was incorporated into the company's new Ternium division.[4]

By the mid-2010s, the plant was producing 2.4 million tons of raw steel[5] and 10.9 million tons of finished steel products annually and employing nearly 17,000 workers.[1]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Start date Iron ore source
1943[6][7][8] Ternium Mexico mining operations[9][10]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
unknown [10.8%]; Ternium Argentina SA; Ternium SA not applicable [10.8%]; 4295856067; 4295856130 E100000132388 [10.8%]; E100000130688; E100001000384 Ternium México SA de CV [100%][11] 4295884332 E100000004192 [100%]

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Main production equipment
semi-finished, finished rolled[10] coil, profile[10] building and infrastructure, tools and machinery[10] yes[12] 2022[12] DRI; EAF

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 Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 2400[13][14][15][16][17] 2400[13][14][15][16][17]

Table 5: Plant-level Crude Iron 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 Sponge iron/DRI capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
operating 1730[18] 1730[18]

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter Pellets
NF NF

Table 7: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year EAF production Other/unknown steel production Total (all routes)
2019 2125[19][20] –[19][20] 2125[19][20]
2020 >0[21] >0[21] –[21]
2021 >0[22] >0[22] –[22]
2022 2112[23] –[23] 2112[23]
2023 2048[24] –[24] 2048[24]

Table 8: Actual Plant-level Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year DRI production Other/unknown iron production Total (all routes)
2019 unknown unknown –
2020 unknown unknown –
2021 >0[25] >0[25] –[25]
2022 1724[26] –[26] 1724[26]
2023 1748[27] –[27] 1748[27]

Unit Details

Table 9: Direct Reduced Iron Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Furnace manufacturer and model Current capacity (ttpa)
DRI 3M5 operating[28] 1983[27] Tenova/Danieli HYL/ENERGIRON[27][27] 780[28]
DRI 4M operating[29] 1998[27] Tenova/Danieli HYL/ENERGIRON[30][27] 950[31]

Table 10: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Furnace manufacturer and model Current capacity (ttpa) Current size (tonnes)
EAF 1 operating[32] 1995[33] Fuchs DC[33][33] 1137[16][13][15][14][17] 180.0[9][34][35][36][10]
EAF 2 operating[32] 1998[33] Danieli DC[33][33] 1263[16][13][15][14][17] 200.0[9][34][35][36][10]

Table 11: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name Scrap-based % scrap % DRI
EAF 1 yes[37][15] 30.00[37][33][15] 70.00[37][33][15]
EAF 2 yes[14][33][15] 30.00[14][33][15] 70.00[14][33][15]

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References

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