United Steel Industrial Kuwait Steel Sharq plant

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United Steel Industrial Kuwait Steel Sharq plant (حديد الكويت (Arabic)), also known as KWT Steel, is an electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Sharq, Capital Governorate, Kuwait.

Location

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  • Location: Sharq, Dasman Complex, Block 3B, Floor 5 , P.O. Box 1370 Safat 13014, Kuwait
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 28.989306, 48.128118 (exact)

Background

The United Steel Industrial Company (Kuwait Steel) is a private company that was established in 1996. In 2007, the company established its own steel making plant with annual production capacity of 1.2 million metric tons of steel billets.[1]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
Operating[2] 2007[3] 900[4]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
United Steel Industries Co KSCC[5] 5000492218 E100000130936

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products ISO 14001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
crude; semi-finished; finished rolled[6] billet, rebar, lime[6] yes[2] EAF[7] 1 EAF (120-tonne)[7]

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. "KuwaitSteel". www.kwtsteel.com. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
  2. 2.0 2.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220318153247/https://www.kwtsteel.com/Home. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20230608142640/https://kwtsteel.com/Production_Facilities. Archived from the original on 08 June 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20220114005207/https://kwtsteel.com/. Archived from the original on 14 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20240125061537/https://www.kwtsteel.com/about. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. 6.0 6.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220318224747/https://www.kwtsteel.com/product. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 7.0 7.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20210920201338/https://www.kwtsteel.com/KWTSteel/Products/Steel-Making-Plant/Processing/Electric-Arc-Furnace. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. 8.0 8.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220319030123/https://www.kwtsteel.com/brouchure/DownloadBrouchure. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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