ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt steel plant

From Global Energy Monitor

ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt steel plant, also known as Eisenhuttenkombinat 'J.W. Stalin' (predecessor) and Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost (EKO) (predecessor), is a 2400 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg, Germany.

Location

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  • Location: ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt GmbH, 15888 Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 52.168649, 14.623473 (exact)

Background

History

In the 1950s, a pig iron works with six blast furnaces was built in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany.[2]

In 1984 a turnkey oxygen conversion (Linz-Donawitz process) based steelworks was installed by Austrian supplier Voestalpine.[3]

In 1997, a new blast furnace (blast furnace 5A) was built.[4]

In 2006, the plant was taken over by ArcelorMittal and has been known as ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt since.[5]

Transition

In March 2021, ArcelorMittal announced plans to transition the Eisenhüttenstadt plant from BF-BOF production to DRI-EAF by 2030.[6] They will add 1750 ttpa of EAF capacity and an innovative DRI plant with unknown capacity.[7][8] In the first phase of the decarbonization drive, the company will replace two blast furnaces in its Bremen and Eisenhüttenstadt plants with DRI-EAF for the production of 3.6 mtpa of crude steel.[9] The company is currently converting two blast furnaces- one in Bremen and one in Eisenhuttenstadt to inject natural gas instead of coal in the iron ore reduction process thereby reducing CO2 emissions.[10] The DRI-EAF plants will be set up by 2026.[11]

ArcelorMittal announced its plan to set up a pilot electrolysis plant and a hydrogen filling station at the Eisenhuttenstadt plant to decarbonise its steel production with green hydrogen. The electrolysis plant is expected to be operational in 2024.[12]

Low-emissions/green steelmaking

This steel plant is associated with a green steel project tracked in the Green Steel Tracker. Details about the project are included below.

  • Company: ArcelorMittal
  • Stated company climate target for 2030: 35% reduction in Europe (baseline 2018)
  • Stated company climate target for 2050: carbon neutrality
  • Project name: Steel4Future
  • Project website: N/A
  • Location: Germany
  • Coordinates: 52.168649, 14.623473 (exact)
  • Project scale: pilot
  • Technology category: H-DR
    • Specific technology: H-DR
    • Hydrogen type: Green electrolytic
  • Year online: 2026
  • Size (m USD): 0.75
  • Steel production capacity (Mtpa): 1.75
  • Iron production capacity (Mtpa): Not stated
  • Hydrogen capacity generation (MW): Not stated
  • Carbon capture capacity (Mtpa CO2): N/A
  • Partners: N/A
  • Date of announcement: 03/05/2021


All references for the above data are available in the Green Steel Tracker.


Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size Power source
operating[1] 1950[13] 2500[14] WindSeeG project[15]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
ArcelorMittal SA [100%][1] 5000030092 [100%] ArcelorMittal Eisenhuettenstadt GmbH[1] 4298356410

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[1] slabs, slit slabs; T-plates, T-plate coils; hot rolled - pickled & unpickled; cold rolled; hot dip galvanised; galvannealed; organic coated[1] automotive; building and infrastructure; energy; steel packaging; tools and machinery; transport[16] 2020[17] 2020[18] blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF)[19][20][1] sinter plant; 2 BOF[19][20][1]

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

Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
2400 TTPA[19] 2400 TTPA

Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
1825 TTPA[21][22] 1825 TTPA

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

Sinter
2900 TTPA[20]

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

Year BOF Production EAF Production OHF Production Total (all routes)
2020 1900 TTPA[23] 1900 TTPA
2021 1900 TTPA[24] 1900 TTPA


Blast Furnace Details

Table 8: Blast Furnace Details:

Unit name Status Start date Stop date Current capacity
5A operating[25] 1997[25] 2027[26] 1825 TTPA[21][22]

Articles and Resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 https://web.archive.org/web/20220318142206/https://flateurope.arcelormittal.com/ourmills/705/eisenhuettenstadt. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Mar. 13, 2020
  3. Steel Production, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Mar. 13, 2020
  4. Pig Iron Production, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Mar. 13, 2020
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  7. "ArcelorMittal plans DRI-EAF plants for Bremen and Eisenhuttenstadt". Steel Times International. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
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  9. "ArcelorMittal receives funding from Bremen state for hydrogen project". www.steelorbis.com. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  10. "ArcelorMittal plans major investment in German sites, to accelerate CO2 emissions reduction strategy and leverage the hydrogen grid | ArcelorMittal". corporate.arcelormittal.com. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  11. Fries, Jürgen (07 October, 2022). "H2 for Bremen's Industrial Transformation: The journey to green steel" (PDF). Germany works. Retrieved 06 October, 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. "ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt to decarbonize steel with two new electrolysers". www.steelorbis.com. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20211224013256/https://eisenhuettenstadt.arcelormittal.com/icc/arcelor-ehst-de/broker.jsp?uMen. Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  15. https://web.archive.org/web/20220929002600/https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/media/news-articles/rwe-and-arcelormittal-intend-to-jointly-build-and-operate-offshore-wind-farms-and-hydrogen-facilities-for-low-emissions-steelmaking-1/. Archived from the original on 2022-09-29. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220922003449/https://storagearcelormittalprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/pevb5bum/arcelormittal_fb2014.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-09-22. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  23. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220129220418/https://corporate-media.arcelormittal.com/media/kl3iewkk/fact-book-2020.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-29. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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Additional data

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