ArcelorMittal Sonasid Casablanca steel plant

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ArcelorMittal Sonasid Casablanca steel plant, also known as Sonasid - Nationale de Siderurgie, is a 800 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in El Jadida, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco.

Location

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  • Location: ArcelorMittal Sonasid - Jorf Lasfar, P.O.Box 856 and 857, El Jadida, Jorf Lasfar, Morocco[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 33.136529, -8.603555 (exact)

Background

AcrelorMittal Sonasid Casablanca steel plant started operating in 2002. It jointly owned by by ArcelorMittal and Sonasid, a state-owned holding company.


Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
operating[2][3] 2002[2] 855[4]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
ArcelorMittal SA [100%][5] 5000030092 [100%] ArcelorMittal SA[1] 5000030092

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[6] rebar, wire rod[7] building and infrastructure[8] electric arc furnace (EAF)[2] 1 EAF (began in 2005)[2][1]

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

Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
800 TTPA[2] 800 TTPA

Table 5: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum):

Year BOF Production EAF Production OHF Production Total (all routes)
2020 500 TTPA[9] 500 TTPA
2021 600 TTPA[3] 600 TTPA

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  3. 3.0 3.1 (PDF) https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/media/3z1ozw5h/arcelor-mittal-fact-book-2021.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20220319023547/http://www.sonasid.ma/Profil/Strategie. Archived from the original on 2022-03-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20211231044946/https://corporate-media.arcelormittal.com/media/w0epovkr/2020-arcelormittal-annual-report.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-31. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)