ArcelorMittal Méditerranée Fos sur Mer steel plant

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ArcelorMittal Méditerranée Fos sur Mer steel plant, also known as Sollac-Méditerranée, Société Lorraine de Laminage Continu, For-Sur Mer, is a steel plant in Fos-Sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France that operates blast furnace (BF), basic oxygen furnace (BOF), and electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Fos-Sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France:

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  • Location: ArcelorMittal Fos-sur-Mer, 13776 Fos-sur-Mer Cedex, France
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 43.43283, 4.887166 (exact)

Background

The ArcelorMittal Méditerranée - Fos sur Mer steel plant is operated by ArcelorMittal's regional subsidiary, ArcelorMittal Méditerranée, along with ArcelorMittal Méditerranée -Saint Chély d'Apcher steel plant.[1]

History

The ArcelorMittal Méditerranée - Fos sur Mer steel plant was built by Sollac-Méditerranée, a regional subsidiary of the French steel company Sollac.[2]

Solmer (1970–72)

In the mid-1960s the French government pushed Sollac into building a new steel plant at Fos-sur-Mer in the Rhone's Mediterranean delta.[3] Sollac would have preferred a site near Le Havre, since it would have been closer to large markets, but the government's regional development plans took priority.[4] Solmer (Societé Lorraine et Méridionale de Laminage Continu) was formed in November 1970 as a Sollac subsidiary to build and operate the new plant. Sollac was in turn a subsidiary of Wendel-Sidélor.[5] At the same time, Usinor decided to increase the capacity of its Dunkirk plant to 8 million tons per year. Taken with the 4 million tons from Fos-sur-Mer, the two companies would add almost 8 million tons or about 45% of total French output between 1968 and 1973.[6]

By 1971 Wendel-Sidélor was the largest steel producer in France, owning Sacilor, the majority of Sollac, and many smaller facilities. However, its productivity was 40% below that of Usinor.[4] Great hopes were pinned in the Fos-sur-Mer project, but in 1971 Wendel-Sidélor did not have enough revenue to finance the project without assistance. In May 1972 Jacques Ferry of the CSSF helped the government persuade the head of Usinor to help bail out the project, despite his very poor relationship with the head of Wendel-Sidélor. In October 1972 it was agreed that Ferry would head Solmer, which would be jointly controlled by Usinor and Wendel-Sidélor.[5] Solmer was 47.5% owned by Wendel-Sidélor, 47.5% by Usinor and 5% by Thysen.[3]

Industry in crisis (1972–86)

In 1973 Wendel-Sidélor was renamed Sacilor Aciéries et Laminoires de Lorraine and in 1975, Sacilor merged with Marine Firminy.[5] By early 1978 the French steel industry was in crisis, with excess capacity and low prices.[4] After a delay due to the March 1978 elections, the cabinet released details of their rescue plan on 20 September 1978.[5] The government converted part of the accumulated losses of about $8,000 million into state equity shareholding, and covered the remaining losses with loans and guarantees. In effect the companies had been nationalized.[7] Usinor shares were devalued by 33% and Sacilor's by 50%.[4] The unions at once called for a 24-hour stoppage at the Sacilor-Sollac plants throughout Lorraine (including the Fos Sur Mer plant) on 25 September 1978, but there was little they could do to prevent layoffs.[5]

Usinor subsidiary (1986–2002)

In 1986 Usinor and Sacilor were combined under one holding company headed by Francis Mer. The group accounted for 95% of French steel production.[6] The Usinor-Sacilor group undertook an internal reorganization in 1987 into four specialized divisions: Sollac for thin flat products, Ugine for special flat and stainless steel products, Unimetal for long products and Ascometal for special long products.[8] The new Sollac, the largest subsidiary of the group, included the flat products operations of the formerly competing Usinor and Sollac companies.[6] In 1988 the company started to base profit sharing on productivity improvements, with the share calculated separately at each location.[4]

On 1 February 2000 Usinor was restructured geographically. Sollac-Atlantique, Sollac-Lorraine and Sollac-Méditerranée were now fully independent subsidiaries. Sollac-Méditerranée included the French plants at Fos-sur-Mer and Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, and also included plants in Spain, Italy, Turkey and Portugal.[2] In February 2002 Usinor was merged with Arbed (Luxembourg) and Aceralia (Spain) to form Arcelor and in 2006 Arcelor was merged with Mittal Steel to form ArcelorMittal.[9] As of 2008 the subsidiaries were named Société Arcelor Atlantique et Lorraine and Sollac Méditerrannée. The companies were involved in a dispute with the French government over the greenhouse gas emission allowance trading scheme, in which different treatment was being applied to the steel sector and to the chemical and non-ferrous metal sectors.[10]

Sollac Mediterranee was later renamed ArcelorMittal Mediterranee SASU.[11]

Transition

In February 2022, ArcelorMittal announced that it would be transitioning its Fos sur Mer plant away from the BF-BOF production route as part of a €1.7 billion investment in its French facilities.[12] The company will build out 2000ttpa of EAF capacity at the plant with the aim of starting up the new equipment by 2027 and phasing out two of its three blast furnaces at the Dunkirk plant by 2030.[13]

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.

Table 1: Green Steel Project Details

All references for the above data are available in the Green Steel Tracker.
Project 1
Project name EAF Fos-sur-Mer
Company ArcelorMittal
Company has climate goals? Yes
Location Fos-sur-Mer, France
Project website Site
Project scale Full scale
Project status Announced
Year to be online 2027
Technology to be used BF-BOF to EAF
Technology details Transition to EAF scrap
Iron production capacity (million tonnes per year) Not applicable
Steel production capacity (million tonnes per year) Not stated
CO2 capture (million tonnes CO2 per year) Not applicable
Hydrogen generation capacity (MW) Not applicable
Investment size (m USD) 964.5
Date of announcement 2022-02-04

Plant Details

Table 2: General Plant Details

Start date Workforce size
1974[14] 2500[15]

Table 3: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
ArcelorMittal SA 5000030092 E100000000687 ArcelorMittal Méditerranée SAS[16] 4298162738 E100000002454

Table 4: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Responsible steel Main production equipment
semi-finished, finished rolled[17] slab, coil, hot rolled[17] automotive, building and infrastructure, energy, steel packaging, tools and machinery, transport[18] yes[19] yes[19] 2022-05[20] BF; BOF; EAF

Table 5: 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 Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
announced – 2000[21][22] 2000[21][22]
operating 2550[23] – 2550[23]
operating pre-retirement 2550[23] – 2550[23]

Table 6: 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 Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
mothballed 2000[24] 2000[24]
operating pre-retirement 2000[24] 2000[24]

Table 7: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter Coke
6800[25] 1650[25]

Table 8: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year BOF production Total (all routes)
2019 3800[26] 3800[26]
2020 3000[27] 3000[27]
2021 3400[17] 3400[17]
2022 3100[28] 3100[28]
2023 2400[29] 2400[29]

Table 9: Actual Plant-level Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

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

Unit Details

Table 10: Blast Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Retired date Furnace manufacturer and model Current size Current capacity (ttpa) Decarbonization technology Most recent relining
BF 1 mothballed[30][31] 1974[14] 2030 Saint-Gobain (parts)[32] 3000.0[33] 2000[24] unknown 2008-01-10[34]
BF 2 operating pre-retirement[30] 1977[14] – Saint-Gobain (parts)[32] 3000.0[35][33] 2000[24] unknown 2011-09-19[32]

Table 11: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name Status Announced date Start date Current capacity (ttpa)
unknown EAF (1) announced[36] 2022-02 2027[37][38] 2000[22][21]

Table 12: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name Scrap-based % scrap % DRI % HBI % sponge iron (unknown if DRI or HBI) % basic/merchant pig iron % granulated pig iron % pig iron (unknown if basic/merchant or granulated % other iron
unknown EAF (1) yes[21] >0[21] unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown

Table 13: Basic Oxygen Furnace Details

Unit name Status Retired date Current capacity (ttpa) Current size
unknown BOF (1) operating[17][37] – 2550[23] 335.0 tonnes[39]
unknown BOF (2) operating pre-retirement[37] 2030[37] 2550[23] 335.0 tonnes[39]

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