United Steel Industrial Kuwait Steel Sharq plant

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United Steel Industrial Kuwait Steel Sharq plant (حديد الكويت), also known as KWT Steel, is a steel plant in Shuaibah, Shuaiba Industrial Area, Capital Governorate, Kuwait that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Shuaibah, Shuaiba Industrial Area, Capital Governorate, Kuwait:

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  • Location: Block 4 St. MA-8, Plot 71
  • 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

Start date Workforce size
2007[2] 900[3]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
ASCOTEC Holding GmbH; Bukhamseen Holding Group 4296669188; 5085880758 E100001016269; E100001016268 United Steel Industries Co KSCC[4] 5000492218 E100000130936

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products ISO 14001 Main production equipment
crude, semi-finished, finished rolled[5] billet, rebar[5] yes[6] 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 1200[7] 1200[7]

Table 5: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter Pellets
NF[7] NF[7]

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

Year EAF production Other/unknown steel production
2019 unknown unknown
2020 unknown unknown
2021 unknown unknown
2022 unknown unknown

Unit Details

Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Furnace manufacturer and model Current capacity (ttpa) Current size (tonnes)
unknown EAF (1) operating[6] 2007[7] Danieli[2] 1200[7] 120.0[8][9]

Table 8: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name Scrap-based % scrap % DRI % HBI % sponge iron (unknown if DRI or HBI)
unknown EAF (1) yes[2] 80.00[2] >0[9] >0[9] 20.00[9]

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References

  1. "KuwaitSteel". www.kwtsteel.com. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20230608142640/https://kwtsteel.com/Production_Facilities. Archived from the original on 2023-06-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20220114005207/https://kwtsteel.com/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-14. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20240125061537/https://www.kwtsteel.com/about. Archived from the original on 2024-01-25. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. 5.0 5.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220318224747/https://www.kwtsteel.com/product. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. 6.0 6.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220318153247/https://www.kwtsteel.com/Home. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 https://web.archive.org/web/20220319030123/https://www.kwtsteel.com/brouchure/DownloadBrouchure. Archived from the original on 2022-03-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20210920201338/https://www.kwtsteel.com/KWTSteel/Products/Steel-Making-Plant/Processing/Electric-Arc-Furnace. Archived from the original on 2021-09-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20250313082949/https://www.amiautomation.com/amiwp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PPMS003_2018.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2025. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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