Acerinox Columbus Stainless steel plant

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Acerinox Columbus Stainless steel plant is a 750 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Location

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  • Location: Hendrina Rd, Middelburg, 1050, South Africa[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): -25.796313, 29.497972 (exact)

Background

According to the 2011 South African Steel Producers Handbook, Acerinox Columbus Stainless sources most of their raw materials (including steel scrap, ferrochrome, and nickel) from South Africa.[2]


Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
operating[3] 1966[3] 207[4]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

State-owned entity status State-owned entity department Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
partial[3] IDC (Industrial Development Corporation)[3] Acerinox SA [76%]; Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd [24%][3] 4295889546 [76%]; 5000021732 [24%] Columbus Stainless (Pty) Ltd[3] 4296772877

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[3] stainless, slab, coil, plate, sheet[3][5] electric arc furnace (EAF)[5] EAF (# unknown)[5]

Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
750 TTPA[6] 750 TTPA

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References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20220318215646/https://www.columbus.co.za/contact-us.php. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. South African Steel Producers Handbook, Department of Mineral Resources, Republic of South Africa, 2011, Retrieved on: Sep. 2, 2020
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 https://web.archive.org/web/20220319204109/https://www.columbus.co.za/about/about.html. Archived from the original on 2022-03-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. (PDF) https://www.acerinox.com/en/grupo-acerinox/Informe_Anual_EN/publication/contents/pages/175/page.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220320123906/https://www.columbus.co.za/processes/process-diagram.html. Archived from the original on 2022-03-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20221212035926/https://pubs.usgs.gov/myb/vol3/2017-18/myb3-2017-18-south-africa.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-12-12. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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