Grupo Gallardo Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant

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Grupo Gallardo Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant is an electric arc furnace (EAF) retired steel plant in Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa, Spain:

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• Location: Errekalde Kalea, 1, Landeta Auzoa, 20730 Azpeitia (Guipúzcoa), Spain
• Coordinates (WGS 84): 43.179125, -2.255939 (exact)

Background

The Grupo Gallardo Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant was bought in 2005 by the Grupo Gallardo.

In 2013, Grupo Gallardo announced that due to a lack of local demand and losses of more than 100 million Euros, it would completely shut down the Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant, while cutting down the workforce at its other plants. It did so later that year, firing the 330 workers working on the site at the time. In 2017, Grupo Gallardo considered reopening the plant, but it seems that plan fell through. As of 2022, it remains idled.

In 2020, the Cristian Lay Industrial Group acquired Gallardo Balboa, including the Corrugados Azpeitia steel plant. They announced they would invest 50 million euros to reopen the Azpeitia plant, which would create an estimated 200 direct and 500 indirect jobs. They envision that opening the plant would in turn help build wind power capacity.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status	Retired date	Workforce size
Retired	2013	300

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner company GEM ID
Cristian Lay SL	4296783017	E100001012221

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category	Steel products	Main production equipment	Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled	billet; rebar; coil	EAF	1 EAF

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

*Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.

Capacity operating status*	Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity	Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
retired	800 TTPA	800 TTPA

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Additional data

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Resources

• Company website