Nippon Ovako Smedjebacken steel plant
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Nippon Ovako Smedjebacken steel plant is an electric steel plant in Smedjebacken, Sweden.[1]
Location
The map below shows the location of the steel plant in Smedjebacken, Sweden.
Background
Steel from Ovako Smedjebacken is processed into finished products at Ovako Boxholm.[2]
Production Equipment
The EAF at Ovako Smedjebacken steel plant started in 1968, but oldest parts of metallurgy date back to 1631.[3]
Hydrogen
Ovako Smedjebacken is the first steel plant to use hydrogen instead of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in a production setting to heat steel before rolling.[4]
Plant Details
- Private/State ownership: private[5]
- Parent company: Nippon Steel Corporation[5]
- Intermediate subsidiary: Sanyo Special Steel[5]
- Owner: Ovako AB[5]
- Alternative plant names: SmeBox (combined sites of Ovako Smedjebacken and the steel rolling site, Ovako Boxholm)
- Location: Smedjebacken, Sweden[1]
- GPS Coordinates: 60.135520, 15.414372 (exact)
- Plant status: operating[1]
- Start year: 1968 (age 52–53)[3]
- Production capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
- Production (thousand tonnes per annum):
- Crude steel: 1010 (EAF, 2017)[7]
- Steel product category: flat[1]
- Steel products:high wear resistance steel, spring steel, micro-alloyed steel[1]
- Steel sector end users: automotive, mining, machines[1]
- Steelmaking process: electric[1]
- Primary steel production equipment: 3 electric arc furnaces (EAF) (began in 1968, 2016, 2017)[3][7][8]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Smedjebacken, Ovako, Retrieved on: Jul. 31, 2020
- ↑ Boxholm, Ovako, Retrieved on: Jul. 31, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ovako Smedjebacken, Viktor Macha, Retrieved on: Jul. 31, 2020>
- ↑ First in the world to heat steel using hydrogen, Ovako, 2020, Retrieved on: Jul. 31, 2020
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 History, Ovako, Retrieved on: Jul. 31, 2020
- ↑ Japan’s NSSMC to acquire Sweden's Ovako, make Sanyo Steel subsidiary, Paul Lim, Fastmarkets MB, Mar. 15, 2018, Retrieved on: Jul. 31, 2020
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Regarding the Agreement to Make Sanyo Special Steel a Subsidiary of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal and Other Matters, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd., Aug. 2, 2018
- ↑ Ovako invests in increased heat treatment capacity, Ovako, Jan. 20, 2017, Retrieved on: Jul. 31, 2020
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