Max Aicher Slovakia Steel Mills Strazske

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Max Aicher Slovakia Steel Mills Strazske, also known as SSM, is a steel plant in Priemyselna, Strazske, Slovakia that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

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• Location: PRIEMYSELNA 720, 072 22 Strážske, Slovakia
• Coordinates (WGS 84): 48.886028, 21.82705 (exact)

Background

Slovakia Steel Mills announced plans to construct a steel plant on a brownfield site in Strazske in 2007. The plant opened in 2011 with approximately 400 workers and a production capacity of 620 thousand tonnes per annum of electric arc furnace (EAF) steel. However, the plant operated for only a few years before the company went bankrupt, production stopped, and the majority of workers were laid off in 2015. In 2018, the site was acquired by the German Max Aicher Group, but production has not restarted.

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Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Announced date	Start date	Idled date	Retired date	Workforce size
2007	2011	2014	2019	500

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company	Parent company PermID	Parent GEM entity ID	Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner GEM entity ID
Max Aicher GmbH & Co KG [100.0%]	4296647109 [100.0%]	E100000130784 [100.0%]	Max Aicher GmbH & Co KG [100%]	4296647109	E100000130784 [100%]

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel products	ISO 14001	ISO 50001	Responsible steel	Main production equipment
wire, rebar	unknown	unknown	unknown	EAF

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

¹Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.

Capacity operating status1	Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity	Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
retired	620	620

Table 5: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter	Pellets
NF	NF

Table 6: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year	EAF production	Other/unknown steel production
2019	unknown	unknown
2020	unknown	unknown
2021	unknown	unknown
2022	unknown	unknown

Unit Details

Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name	Status	Start date	Retired date	Current capacity (ttpa)
unknown EAF (1)	retired	2011	2019	620

Table 8: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name	Scrap-based	% scrap
unknown EAF (1)	yes	100.00

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Additional data

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Resources

• Company website