ArcelorMittal Montreal steel plant

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ArcelorMittal Montreal steel plant, also known as ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada and ArcelorMittal Contrecoeur, is a 2400 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Contrecœur, Quebec, Canada.

Location

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  • Location: 800, Montée de la Pomme d'Or, Contrecœur (Quebec), J0L 1C0, Canada[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 45.835148, -73.254957 (exact)

Background

ArcelorMittal Montreal consists of two steel plants, ArcelorMittal Contrecoeur East and ArcelorMittal Contrecoeur West, a DRI plant, a bar mill, wire rod mill, and steel recycling center at the the Quebec location. Two additional wire mills in Montreal (St. Patrick wire mill) and Ontario (Hamilton-East wire mill) are also operated under the ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada company.[2]



Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size Iron ore source
operating[1] 1914[3][4] 1900[5] ArcelorMittal Exploitation minere (northern Quebec)[6]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
ArcelorMittal SA [100%][7] 5000030092 [100%] ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada GP[8] 5056839078

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[9][10] special quality bars, reinforcing bars, wire rod, spring blades, market quality bar, drawn wire[10] automotive; building and infrastructure[9] direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF)[11] 2 Midrex DRI plants (Midrex 1 (0.4 MTPA, began in 1973), Midrex 2 (0.6 MTPA, began in 1977)); 3 EAF (#3 (141-tonne; began in 1978; relined in 1985; 1994; 2002); #4 (141-tonne; began in 1978; relined in 1985; 1994; 2003); 98-tonne EAF (began in 1990))[3][12][13][6]

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

Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
2400 TTPA[14][13] 2400 TTPA

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

Sponge iron/DRI capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
1000 TTPA[12] 1000 TTPA

Table 6: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum):

Year BOF Production EAF Production OHF Production Total (all routes)
2020 1600 TTPA[15] 1600 TTPA
2021 2000 TTPA[11] 2000 TTPA

Articles and Resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220112171859/https://long-canada.arcelormittal.com/en/our-locations/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Profile, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Aug. 3, 2020
  3. 3.0 3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20180711210823/http://long-canada.arcelormittal.com:80/fr/histoire. Archived from the original on 2018-07-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20180620211519/http://long-canada.arcelormittal.com:80/fr/un-chef-de-file-mondial. Archived from the original on 2018-06-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20180530011636/http://long-canada.arcelormittal.com:80/en/careers. Archived from the original on 2018-05-30. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. 6.0 6.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220124201705/https://long-canada.arcelormittal.com/fr/production/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-24. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20211223204848/https://canada.arcelormittal.com/en/arcelormittal-in-canada/what-we-do. Archived from the original on 2021-12-23. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20211211142617/https://long-canada.arcelormittal.com/en/profile-0/. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220629152154/https://northamerica.arcelormittal.com/our-operations/arcelormittal-long-products-canada. Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. 10.0 10.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220120113922/https://long-canada.arcelormittal.com/fr/nos-produits/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. 11.0 11.1 (PDF) https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/media/3z1ozw5h/arcelor-mittal-fact-book-2021.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. 12.0 12.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220122093145/https://www.midrex.com/about-midrex/midrex-plants/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. 13.0 13.1 "2022 AIST Electric Arc Furnace Roundup". Association for Iron & Steel Technology. January 2022. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  14. https://long-canada.arcelormittal.com/en/our-products/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. (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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