Vale Tecnored Marabá iron plant

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Vale Tecnored Marabá iron plant (Usina Vale Tecnored Marabá) is a steel plant in Marabá, Pará, Brazil that operates ironmaking technology.

Location

The map below shows the approximate location of the plant in Marabá, Pará, Brazil:

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• Location: Pátio Ferroviário de Marabá
• Coordinates (WGS 84): -5.408654, -49.103539 (approximate)

Background

In November 2021 the Brazilian mining company Vale announced that it had obtained a license to build a "green pig iron" plant at Marabá in northern Brazil. The new facility was to incorporate Vale's innovative Tecnored technology, using corn biomass to replace metallurgical coal in the production process.

Construction of the iron plant began in April 2022, with commercial operations expected to start up in 2025 or 2026. The Tecnored plant's annual production capacity would initially be 250 thousand tonnes per annum (ttpa), with the potential to increase to 500 ttpa. Pig iron from the plant would supply the nearby Sinobras Marabá steel plant, simultaneously under development by Siderúrgica Norte Brasil S.A.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Construction date	Start date	Workforce size	Power source	Iron ore source
2022-04	2025	400	unknown	Carajás mine

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

State-owned entity status	Parent company	Parent company PermID	Parent company GEM ID	Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner company GEM ID
Partial	Vale SA	4295859761	E100001000480	Vale SA	4295859761	E100001000480

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel products	ISO 14001	ISO 50001	Main production equipment
pig iron	unknown	unknown	Iron other/unspecified

Table 4: 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	Other/unspecified iron capacity	Nominal iron capacity (total)
construction	500	500

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

Ferronickel	Sinter	Coke	Pellets
NF	NF	NF	NF

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Additional data

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Resources

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