Gerdau Açominas Ouro Branco steel plant

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Gerdau Açominas Ouro Branco steel plant (Usina siderúrgica Gerdau Açominas (Portuguese)), also known as Ouro Branco steel plant and Presidente Artur Bernardes steel plant, is a 4500 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Ouro Branco, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Location

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  • Location: Rod. MG-443, Km 7 s/n, Fazenda do Cadete, Ouro Branco - MG, 36420-000, Brazil[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): -20.543507, -43.752950 (exact)

Background

Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau S.A. is one of the Americas' leading producers of long steel, and one of the world's largest recyclers and special steel suppliers.[2] The Gerdau Açominas steel plant in Ouro Branco is the company's flagship Brazilian steelmaking facility, with installed capacity to produce 7.6 million tons of steel per year.[3][4]

Originally known as Usina Presidente Arthur Bernardes, the Açominas plant started operations in 1986.[5] Gerdau acquired an equity stake in the plant in 1997, and the assets of Gerdau and Açominas were merged in 2003 under the name Gerdau Açominas.[6]

Facilities at the Ouro Branco plant were significantly upgraded in 2007 with the addition of a second blast furnace and a second sintering plant. A second coking plant was commissioned the following year.[7]

In late 2019, Gerdau announced that it would invest in a major overhaul of Açominas' aging blast furnace #1 and its associated coking plant in 2020.[8]

The plant's product mix consists of slabs, plates, coiled plates, hot rolled sheets and coils, ingots, blooms and billets, medium and heavy structural shapes, and wire rods.[9] The unit exports its production to more than 40 countries, making it one of Brazil's largest steel exporters.[5]



Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size Iron ore source
operating[10] 1986[11][12] 6000[13] Gerdau's Varzea do Lopes mine[14]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
Gerdau SA [99.9%]; Other [0.1%][15] 5000004542 [99.9%]; GEM0000000 [0.1%] Gerdau Acominas SA[15] 4296998615

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[16] blooms, billets, slabs, plates, blocks, structural profiles, wire rod, hot rolled sheets and coils[16][11] automotive; building and infrastructure; energy; tools and machinery[12] 2022[17] blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF)[18][19] 2 coking plants (1986, 2008); 2 sinter plants (1986, 2007); 2 BOF (1986)[16][20]

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

Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
4500 TTPA[13][18][21][22][23] 4500 TTPA

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

Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
4429 TTPA[24][25] 4429 TTPA

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter Coke
5649 TTPA[26] 1595 TTPA[26]

Table 7: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum):

Year BOF Production EAF Production OHF Production Total (all routes)
2020 2787 TTPA[16][15] 2787 TTPA[16][15]
2021 2759 TTPA[19][27] 2759 TTPA[19][27]

Table 8: Actual Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum):

Year BF Production DRI Production Total (all routes)
2020 3516 TTPA[1] 3516 TTPA[1]
2021 3764 TTPA[26] 3764 TTPA[26]


Blast Furnace Details

Table 9: Blast Furnace Details:

Unit name Status Construction date Start date Current size Current capacity
1 operating[16][20] July 1986[16][20] 2652 m³[24][28] 2896 TTPA[24][28][29]
2 operating[16][20] November 2005 October 2007[16][20] 1420 m³[24][30] 1533 TTPA[29][20][31][24][25]

Articles and Resources

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Additional data

To access additional data, including an interactive map of steel power plants, a downloadable dataset, and summary data, please visit the Global Steel Plant Tracker and Global Blast Furnace Tracker on the Global Energy Monitor website.