Usiminas Ipatinga steel plant
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Usiminas Ipatinga steel plant (Usina siderúrgica Usiminas Ipatinga), also known as Usina Siderúrgica Intendente Câmara, is a steel plant in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil that operates blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) technology.
Location
The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil:
- Location: Av. Pedro Linhares Gomes, 5431 - Usiminas, Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, 35160-900, Brazil
- Coordinates (WGS 84): -19.491277, -42.544253 (exact)
Background
Usiminas (Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA) is Brazil's leading producer of flat steel, with a combined capacity of 9.5 million tons at all of its steel plants (including 3.5 million tons at the Ipatinga plant) and access to 2.6 billion tons of iron ore reserves.[1]
The company's Ipatinga plant, founded in April 1956 in what was to become known as the Vale do Aço (Steel Valley), was the first large steel mill in the mineral-rich Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. In October 1962, Brazilian president João Goulart lit the first blast furnace, officially inaugurating commercial operations at the plant.[2][3]
The Ipatinga plant had an initial steel production capacity of 500 tons per annum, but grew steadily during its first decade of operation, doubling capacity to 1 million tpa by the start of the 1970s and reaching 3.5 million tpa with the inauguration of the plant's third blast furnace in 1973.[1]
The Usiminas Ipatinga plant originally developed as a public-private partnership between the Brazilian federal government, the state government of Minas Gerais, and private Japanese investors.[3] In 2011, the Italian-Argentine conglomerate Techint acquired an ownership stake in Usiminas through its subsidiaries Ternium and Tenaris.[4]
The Usiminas Ipatinga plant is a leading producer of slabs, plates and coiled plates, hot- and cold-rolled sheets and coils, hot-dip and electrolytic galvanized sheets, and other coated sheets and coils.[5][6] Its products serve customers in the automotive, railroad, highway machinery, shipbuilding, civil construction, agricultural, capital goods, electrical-electronic, white goods (domestic appliances), machinery and energy sectors.[4][6]
In May 2019, Usiminas announced that it would invest R$1.2 billion to overhaul blast furnace 3, the largest of Ipatinga's furnaces, by 2022.[7]
In April 2020, two of Usiminas Ipatinga's three blast furnaces (the 700,000-tpa blast furnace No. 1 and 600,000-tpa blast furnace No. 2) were shut down indefinitely in response to the suspension of Brazil's automotive industry due to Covid-19. With automakers accounting for more than a third of the demand for Brazilian steel, analysts were reportedly anticipating a 50% dropoff in sales from the Ipatinga plant in the second quarter of 2020.[8] Blast furnace No. 1 resumed operations in late August 2020, while the 2.2 million-tpa blast furnace No. 3 remained operational throughout the pandemic.[9]
Plant Details
Table 1: General Plant Details
| Start date | Workforce size | Iron ore source |
|---|---|---|
| 1962[10][11] | 6500[12][13][14] | Oeste, Central and Leste mines operated by Mineração Usiminas[15] |
Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Parent company GEM ID | Owner | Owner company PermID | Owner company GEM ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA | 4295859856 | E100000130691 | Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA[16][17] | 4295859856 | E100000130691 |
Table 3: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | Steel sector end users | ISO 14001 | ISO 50001 | Responsible steel | Main production equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| semi-finished, finished rolled[18][17] | sheet, plate, coated, coil, slab[17] | automotive, building and infrastructure, energy, tools and machinery, transport[19] | 2022-10-01[20] | unknown[20] | unknown[21] | BF; BOF |
Table 4: Plant-level Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status1 | Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| operating | 5000[13][22][23] | 5000[13][22][23] |
Table 5: Plant-level Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status1 | Blast furnace capacity | Nominal iron capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| mothballed | 660[24] | 660[24] |
| operating | 3660[25][26][27][28][29] | 3660[25][26][27][28][29] |
Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Ferronickel | Sinter | Coke | Pellets |
|---|---|---|---|
| NF | 6300[15] | 800[15] | NF |
Table 7: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Year | BOF production | Total (all routes) |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3264[30] | 3264[30] |
| 2020 | 2760[17] | 2760[17] |
| 2021 | 3178[31] | 3178[31] |
| 2022 | 2655[32][33] | 2655[32][33] |
| 2023 | 2069[34] | 2069[34] |
Table 8: Actual Plant-level Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Year | BF production | Total (all routes) |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3167[35] | 3167[35] |
| 2020 | 2639[35] | 2639[35] |
| 2021 | 3022[36] | 3022[36] |
| 2022 | 2552[37][33] | 2552[37][33] |
| 2023 | 2015[38] | 2015[38] |
Unit Details
Table 9: Blast Furnace Details
| Unit name | Status | Start date | Current size | Current capacity (ttpa) | Decarbonization technology | Most recent relining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF 1 | mothballed[28] | 1962[39][40][41] | 777.0[42][43] | 660[24] | unknown | 2018-04[41] |
| BF 2 | operating[44] | 1965[25][40] | 777.0[43] | 660[25][26] | unknown | 2021-06[25] |
| BF 3 | operating[45][46] | 1974[47][40][48] | 2722.0[43] | 3000[28][27][29] | unknown | 2023-11[49] |
Table 10: Basic Oxygen Furnace Details
| Unit name | Status | Current capacity (ttpa) |
|---|---|---|
| BOF 1 | operating | 459[23][22][13] |
| BOF 2 | operating | 459[23][22][13] |
| BOF 3 | operating | 780[23][22][13] |
| BOF 4 | operating | 1651[23][22][13] |
| BOF 5 | operating | 1651[23][22][13] |
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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