CAP Acero Huachipato steel plant
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CAP Acero Huachipato steel plant (Planta Siderúrgica Huachipato) is a blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) steel plant in Huachipato, Talcahuano, Chile.[1] CAP Acero operates two blast furnaces (BF) and two basic oxygen furnaces (BOF).[2]
Location
The map below shows the location of the steel plant in Huachipato, Talcahuano, Chile.
Background
The CAP Acero steel plant, known in Spanish as Siderúrgica Huachipato, is Chile's only integrated steel mill.[1] It is owned and operated by Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato S.A., the steelmaking division of Grupo CAP (Compañía de Acero del Pacífico, or Pacific Steel Company), a leader in Chile's iron mining and steel making industries.[3]
CAP was founded in 1946 as a joint venture between the Chilean government agency CORFO (33%), the Caja Autónoma de Amortización de la Deuda Pública (14%), and private shareholders (53%). The company, renamed Grupo de Empresas CAP in 1981, was entirely privatized in 1987.[4] Construction of the steel plant began in early 1947, and it was officially inaugurated on November 25, 1950.[5]
Since 1950 CAP has maintained its position as Chile's leading steel producer and processor, while steadily modernizing and upgrading its infrastructure.[1] [6] The plant's blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace system is fed with iron ore from CAP's own mines. The plant's continuous casting facilities and rolling mill transform the resulting steel into slabs, billets, and a variety of products destined for national and international markets, including cold- and hot-rolled steel, grinding bars, rebar, and wire rod for use in construction, mining and other industries.[7][2]
In 2013, the plant's blast furnace No. 2 was idled as part of a company-wide cost-cutting plan, but the furnace was reportedly brought back online in April 2019.[8]
Plant Details
- Other language plant name: Planta siderúrgica Huachipato (Spanish)
- Location: Av. Gran Bretaña 2910, Huachipato, Talcahuano, Chile[1][9]
- GPS Coordinates: -36.746421, -73.129171 (exact)
- Plant status: operating[1]
- Start year: 1950 (age 71–72)[10]
- Parent company: CAP SA[6]
- Parent company PermID: 4295863321
- Owner: Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato SA[2]
- Owner company PermID: 5000030020
- Production capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
- 2020 Production (thousand tonnes per annum):
- Steel product category: finished rolled[1]
- Steel products: grinding bars, wire rod, concrete reinforcing bars, cold-rolled, hot-rolled, and specialty steel products[1]
- Steel sector end users: automotive; building and infrastructure; tools and machinery[12]
- Workforce size: approximately 850[13][14]
- ISO14001: certified in 2020[2]
- ISO50001: certified (expiration date unknown)[2][14][15][16]
- Main production equipment: BF, BOF[2]
- Detailed production equipment: 2 blast furnaces (BF): BF #1: 755 m3, 1950; BF #2: 881 m3, 1966[2][10]; 2 basic oxygen furnace (BOF) (1975)[2][17]; coking plant (58 Otto Twin Flue vertical ovens, 1990)[2][10][18][19]
- Iron ore source: El Romeral iron mine, other iron mines owned by CAP Minería[20]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "QUIENES SOMOS - CAP Acero". CAP Acero. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 "Memoria Anual 2020" (PDF). CAP. March 30, 2021.
- ↑ CAP. "Operaciones: Líneas de Negocio: Siderurgia". CAP S.A. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ↑ "CAP S.A." (PDF). Humphreys Clasificadora de Riesgo. April 2016.
- ↑ "Historia de la Compañía de Acero del Pacífico, S.A. (p. 113 & p. 121)" (PDF). Memoria Chilena.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "CAP Chile". CAP S.A. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ↑ "Infografia: Paso 7 Colada Continua, Paso 8 Laminación". CAP Acero. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ↑ "Chilean steelmaker CAP restarts blast furnace after six years: sources". S&P Global Platts. April 30, 2019.
- ↑ "CAP Acero - Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato". Facebook. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Empresa: Historia". CAP Acero. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
- ↑ "CAP Acero - Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato - Nuestro Alto Horno 2". Facebook. August 28, 2019. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ↑ "Nuestros Productos en el Mercado". CAP Acero. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ↑ "Nuestros Productos". CAP Acero. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "ISO 50001 Energy Management System Case Study" (PDF). Clean Energy Ministerial. 2020.
- ↑ "Environmental Product Declaration" (PDF). EPD® Latin America. December 2, 2020.
- ↑ "Management System Certificate ISO 50001:2011" (PDF). DNV GL – Business Assurance. July 27, 2018.
- ↑ "2021 AIST Basic Oxygen Furnace Roundup". AIST (Association for Iron & Steel Technology). Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ↑ "CAP ACERO - Infografia - Paso 2: Planta de Coque". CAP Acero. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ↑ "Coqueria Huachipato CAP". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ↑ "Minas El Romeral". CMP. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
External resources
External articles
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