ArcelorMittal Zenica steel plant
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ArcelorMittal Zenica is an integrated steel plant in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]
Location
The map below shows the location of the steel plant in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Background
In 2012, people in Zenica protested against ArcelorMittal Zenica for air quality pollution.[2]
In 2017, The Guardian reported that ArcelorMittal Zenica was operating without valid permits.[3] ArcelorMittal purchased the plant in 2004 with the agreement to make "all appropriate investment in the protection of the environment." According to The Guardian report, ArcelorMittal Zenica had still not made these promised improvements by 2017.[3]
Plant Details
- Private/State ownership: private[1]
- Parent company: ArcelorMittal[1]
- Owner: ArcelorMittal Zenica[1]
- Location: Bulevar Kralja Tvrtka I, no. 17, 72000 Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina[1]
- GPS Coordinates: 44.224446, 17.899815 (exact)
- Plant status: operating[4]
- Start year: 1892 (age 127–128)[5]
- Production capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
- Crude steel: 1000 (EAF and BOF)[6]
- Production (thousand tonnes per annum):
- Crude steel: 700 (2018; EAF and BOF)[7]
- Steel product category: long[7]
- Steel products: billets, wire rod, rebar, coiled rebar, ribbed concrete steel[6][1]
- Steel sector end users: construction, infrastructure, mechanical engineering[1]
- Steelmaking process: integrated, electric[1]
- Primary steel production equipment: coke plant, sinter plant, 1 blast furnace (BF), 1 basic oxygen furnace (BOF), electric arc furnaces (EAF) (# unknown)[1][7][8][3]
- Iron ore source: Prijedor Mine[1]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 ArcelorMittal Zenica, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Jul. 16, 2020
- ↑ Big protests in Zenica against ArcelorMittal, Deniza Hilić, Change.org, Dec. 22, 2012, Retrieved on: Jul. 16, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Zenica, Bosnia: the steel town where even a breath can be a struggle, Peter Geoghegan, The Guardian, Feb. 14, 2017, Retrieved on: Jul. 16, 2020
- ↑ ArcelorMittal Zenica, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Jul. 16, 2020
- ↑ 125 years of steel production in Zenica, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Jul. 16, 2020
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 What we do, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Jul. 16, 2020
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Fact Book 2018, ArcelorMittal, 2019
- ↑ History, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Jul. 16, 2020
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