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Usiminas Ipatinga steel plant (Usina siderúrgica Usiminas Ipatinga (Portuguese)), also known as Usina Siderúrgica Intendente Câmara, is a blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) steel plant operating in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Location

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  • 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

Plant status Start date Workforce size
Operating[10] 1962[11][12] 6500[13][14]
Operating[10] 1962[11][12] 6500[13][14]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA USIMINAS[15][16] 4295859856 E100000130691

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[17][15] slabs, plates and coiled plates, hot- and cold-rolled sheets and coils, hot-dip and electrolytic galvanized sheets, other coated sheets and coils[15] automotive; building and infrastructure; energy; tools and machinery; transport[18] 2022[19] BF, BOF[20][21][22][23] 3 coking plants; 3 sinter plants; 5 BOF (plant #1 (3 BOF 1963, 1981), plant #2 (2 BOF, 1975; one replaced in 2018, one scheduled for replacement in 2023)[20][23][24][25][26][27][28]
semi-finished; finished rolled[17][15] slabs, plates and coiled plates, hot- and cold-rolled sheets and coils, hot-dip and electrolytic galvanized sheets, other coated sheets and coils[15] automotive; building and infrastructure; energy; tools and machinery; transport[18] 2022[19] BF, BOF[20][21][22][23] 3 coking plants; 3 sinter plants; 5 BOF (plant #1 (3 BOF 1963, 1981), plant #2 (2 BOF, 1975; one replaced in 2018, one scheduled for replacement in 2023)[20][23][24][25][26][27][28]

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* Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 5000 TTPA[14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30] 5000 TTPA[14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30]
mothballed –[14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30] –[14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30][14][29][30]

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.
Capacity operating status* Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
operating 3660 TTPA[25][24][31][32][33][34] 3660 TTPA[25][24][31][32][33][34]
mothballed 660 TTPA[25][24][31][32][33][34] 660 TTPA[25][24][31][32][33][34]

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

Sinter Coke
5732 TTPA[35] 1463 TTPA[35]
5732 TTPA[35] 1463 TTPA[35]

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

Year BOF Production Total (all routes)
2020 2760 TTPA[15] 2760 TTPA[15]
2021 3178 TTPA[21] 3178 TTPA[21]
2022 2655 TTPA[36][37] 2655 TTPA[36][37]

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

Year BF Production Total (all routes)
2020 2639 TTPA[38] 2639 TTPA[38]
2021 3022 TTPA[39] 3022 TTPA[39]
2022 2552 TTPA[35][37] 2552 TTPA[35]

Blast Furnace Details

Table 9: Blast Furnace Details

Unit name Status Announced date Construction date Start date Current size Current capacity (ttpa) Decarbonization technology Most recent relining
1 mothballed[34] unknown unknown 1962-10[40][41][42] 777 m³[43][44] 660[25] unknown 2018-04[42]
2 operating[45] unknown unknown 1965-09[24][40] 777 m³[44] 660[24][31] unknown 2021-06[24]
3 operating[46] unknown unknown 1974-12[40][47][48] 2722 m³[44] 3000[32][33][34] unknown 2023-11[49][50][51][52][53][54]

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