Al Ittefaq National Steel Dammam plant

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Al Ittefaq National Steel Dammam plant (الشركة الوطنية للحديد), also known as National Steel, NASCO, is a steel plant in Dammam, Eastern, Saudi Arabia that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Dammam, Eastern, Saudi Arabia:

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• Location: Dammam, 31472, Saudi Arabia
• Coordinates (WGS 84): 26.244786, 49.969064 (exact)

Background

The Al Ittefaq National Steel Dammam plant started operating in 2004 and it is owned by Al-Ittefaq Steel, the largest private sector steel manufacturer in Saudi Arabia. Its production facilities delivers reinforced steel bars, billets, DRI, and downstream steel products. Little recent news or information on the plant is available; no environmental noncompliance or safety incidents have occurred at Al Ittefaq National Dammam plant in recent years.

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Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Start date
2004

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company	Parent company PermID	Parent GEM entity ID	Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner GEM entity ID
Hilal Al-Tuwairqi; unknown	unknown; not applicable	E100001016122; E100000132388	National Steel Co [100%]	5077903844	E100000131081 [100%]

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category	Steel products	ISO 14001	ISO 50001	Main production equipment
semi-finished	billet	2023-01-09	2024-01-04	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	1000	1000

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

Sinter	Pellets
NF	NF

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

Table 7: Actual Plant-level Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year	DRI production	Other/unknown iron production
2019	unknown	unknown
2020	unknown	unknown
2021	unknown	unknown
2022	unknown	unknown

Unit Details

Table 8: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name	Status	Start date	Current capacity (ttpa)	Current size (tonnes)
unknown EAF (1)	operating	2004	1000	100.0

Table 9: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name	Scrap-based	% scrap	% DRI
unknown EAF (1)	yes	50.00	50.00

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Resources

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