Gerdau Siderperu Chimbote steel plant

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Gerdau Siderperu Chimbote steel plant (Planta siderúrgica Gerdau Siderperu Chimbote (Spanish)) is a blast furnace (BF), direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Chimbote, Ancash, Peru.

Location

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• Location: Av. Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo s/n, Chimbote - Santa - Ancash, Peru
• Coordinates (WGS 84): -9.059693, -78.601178 (exact)

Background

The Chimbote steel mill began operating under state ownership in April 1958, when Peru's president inaugurated the plant's DRI (iron reduction), steel-making and laminating facilities. The company was privatized in 1996 and passed into the hands of its current majority owner, the Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau, in 2006.

In 2008, Gerdau announced plans to increase steel production at the plant from 450,000 tpa (tonnes per annum) to 3 million tpa by 2013. However, as of early 2021, the plant's production capacities for crude steel and rolled products were only 750,000 tpa and 573,000 tpa, respectively, and the plant's iron-making capacity of 400,000 tpa had been temporarily idled.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status	Start date	Workforce size	Power source
Operating	1958	810	Enel Perú and SIDERPERU, a Gerdau company, signed a 12-year energy supply contract through which the electricity company will supply energy from its renewable plants to the operation of the steel mill. This alliance, which will last for more than a decade, involves part of the energy that will be produced by Enel's next non-conventional renewable energy plants: Wayra Extension wind power plant and Clemesi solar plant.
Operating	1958	810	Enel Perú and SIDERPERU, a Gerdau company, signed a 12-year energy supply contract through which the electricity company will supply energy from its renewable plants to the operation of the steel mill. This alliance, which will last for more than a decade, involves part of the energy that will be produced by Enel's next non-conventional renewable energy plants: Wayra Extension wind power plant and Clemesi solar plant.

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner company GEM ID
Empresa Siderurgica del Peru SAA	4295886075	E100000130731

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category	Steel products	Steel sector end users	ISO 14001	Main production equipment	Detailed production equipment
finished rolled	rebar, merchant bars, steel tubes, steel mesh	building and infrastructure; energy; tools and machinery; transport	2021	BF, DRI, EAF	1 Tenova EAF (2010); 3 DRI modules (SL/RN rotary kiln, 1980)
finished rolled	rebar, merchant bars, steel tubes, steel mesh	building and infrastructure; energy; tools and machinery; transport	2021	BF, DRI, EAF	1 Tenova EAF (2010); 3 DRI modules (SL/RN rotary kiln, 1980)

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)
operating	750 TTPA	750 TTPA
mothballed	–	–

Table 5: Crude Iron 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*	Blast furnace capacity	Sponge iron/DRI capacity	Nominal iron capacity (total)
operating	–	–	–
mothballed	400 TTPA	100 TTPA	500 TTPA

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

Year	EAF Production	Total (all routes)
2020	343 TTPA	343 TTPA
2021	309 TTPA	309 TTPA
2022	>0 TTPA	>0 TTPA

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

Year	BF Production	DRI Production	Total (all routes)
2020	0 TTPA	0 TTPA	0 TTPA
2021	0 TTPA	0 TTPA	0 TTPA
2022	0 TTPA	–	0 TTPA

Blast Furnace Details

Table 8: Blast Furnace Details

Unit name	Status	Announced date	Construction date	Start date	Current capacity (ttpa)	Decarbonization technology	Most recent relining
unknown	mothballed	unknown	unknown	1967	400	unknown	unknown

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