TenarisSiderca Campana steel plant

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TenarisSiderca Campana steel plant (Planta siderúrgica TenarisSiderca (Spanish)), also known as Tenaris Siderca Seamless Tubes Mill, is a 1300 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Campana, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Location

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  • Location: Dr Jorge Simini 250 B2804MHA, Campana, Argentina[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): -34.152554, -58.977388 (exact)

Background

TenarisSiderca is the Argentine division of Tenaris, the world's leading manufacturer of steel pipes for the international energy industry.[2]

The TenarisSiderca steel plant in Campana, Argentina traces its origins back to 1954, when Italian industrialist Agostino Rocca, founder of the Argentine-Italian conglomerate Techint, oversaw the construction of Dálmine Safta, South America's first seamless steel pipe factory and Argentina's largest private steel plant at the time.[2][3][4]

The Dálmine-Safta factory added its own onsite electric steel plant in 1962, and a thermoelectric power plant in 1963. In 1964, the newly expanded complex adopted the name Dálmine-Siderca S.A.[5], subsequently changed to Siderca S.A.I.C. In 1968 the plant started operating a continuous casting machine, the second to be installed in Latin America. In 1976, Siderca installed DRI (direct reduced iron) technology at the plant. This was followed in 1977 by installation of the world's first continuous rolling laminator fed with round bars, and in 1978 with construction of Siderca's port on the Paraná River.[3]

Over the next two decades, Siderca underwent a period of steady growth while forming a series of strategic international alliances. In the mid-1990s, Siderca acquired a controlling interest in Mexico's Tamsa and Italy's Dálmine, becoming the world's largest producer and exporter of seamless steel tubes. In 2001, the company's expansion culminated in the creation of Tenaris, the global steel pipes manufacturing division of the Techint Group. Participants in the Tenaris alliance included Siderca (Argentina), Tamsa (Mexico), Dálmine (Italy), Algoma Tubes (Canada), NKK (Japan), Confab (Brazil), Siat (Argentina), Silcotub (Romania), and TAVSA (Venezuela).[3][5]

The Siderca plant's initial production capacity was about 150,000 tons per annum, intended to cover the domestic market and export to South America. Currently with the installation of modern technology, the plant's annual production exceeds 700,000 tons of tubes, which are exported worldwide.[4]

The plant's industrial complex includes a DRI (direct reduced iron) plant featuring Midrex technology installed in 1976[6], two electric arc furnaces (one Tenova, one Siemens Siemag)[6], 16,000 m2 of buildings, 12 km of railways, and a 2 km canal allowing ships to dock near the steelworks.[5]

In March 2023, Tenaris announced its plans to install a new Electric arc Furnace with a production capacity of 950 ttpa at the Campana plant. This EAF will be equipped with Tenova's Consteel Technology and will replace one of the two existing EAF units at the plant. The Consteel technology uses a continuous feed of raw materials instead of the conventional batch process. This results in higher energy efficiency and productivity with improved emissions control. The company also aims to build a wind farm for its operations in order to reduce their carbon footprint, in line with their 2030 decarbonization goal.[7][8]


Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size Power source
operating[1] 1962[9][10] 5169[11] onsite thermoelectric power plant (since 1963), wind farm (to begin operating in 2023)[9][12][13]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
Tenaris SA [100%][1] 4295883040 [100%] Siderca SAI y C[14] 4295856035

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
finished rolled[15] seamless steel pipes[15] energy[16] 2022[17] direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF)[18][19] 1 DRI plant: Midrex CDRI (1976); 2 EAF: EAF #4: Tenova (1995), EAF #5: SMS Siemag (year unknown)[20][21][22]

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

Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
1300 TTPA[9][23] 1300 TTPA

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

Sponge iron/DRI capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
610 TTPA[24][25] 610 TTPA[9][26]

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

Year BOF Production EAF Production OHF Production Total (all routes)
2020 694 TTPA[27] 694 TTPA[27]
2021 873 TTPA[28][23] 873 TTPA[28][23]

Articles and Resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220108032950/https://www.tenaris.com/en/contact/tenaris-around-the-world. Archived from the original on 2022-01-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. 2.0 2.1 "About us". Tenaris. Retrieved 2020-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Historia De Siderca". Prezi. Retrieved 2020-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Dalmine, DalmineSiderca, Siderca y TenarisSiderca". Portal de Campana. Retrieved 2020-08-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Mg. Julia Strada, Dra. Victoria Basualdo, Dr. Fernando Porta (December 2018). "La industria siderúrgica en Argentina: reestructuración productiva y tercerización laboral (1990-2017)" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. 6.0 6.1 "2022 AIST Electric Arc Furnace Roundup". AIST. Retrieved 2022-02-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "Tenaris takes another step towards cleaner steel production in Argentina". Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  8. "New Consteel® EAF for Tenaris in Argentina | Tenova". tenova.com. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220126151546/https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/bitstream/handle/11336/79719/CONICET_Digital_Nro.ac06c2ce-cd64-45bd-82fe-f48d82d78f6d_A.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-26. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20220319010303/http://www.acero.org.ar/a-66-anos-de-la-inauguracion-de-tenaris-un-hito-que-cambio-la-historia-de-la-ciudad. Archived from the original on 2022-03-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20220516193308/https://ir.tenaris.com/static-files/b134da7d-0c22-4dc7-b300-b5d8adb63e22. Archived from the original on 2022-05-16. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. https://ir.tenaris.com/static-files/6cbf9e1e-6bdf-42b0-973a-638f37af8720. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20220218012011/https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/tenaris-invest-190-million-new-wind-farm-argentina-2022-02-18/. Archived from the original on 2022-02-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20210817233752/https://ir.tenaris.com/static-files/0a6a5cb3-b3be-4871-b713-0a285bb3254a. Archived from the original on 2021-08-17. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. 15.0 15.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220319000239/https://ir.tenaris.com/static-files/ab13a850-f78b-4344-b5c5-ad6d22fa8d9f. Archived from the original on 2022-03-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. https://web.archive.org/web/20211102124718/https://www.tenaris.com/en/about-us/. Archived from the original on 2021-11-02. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. https://web.archive.org/web/20220320172453/https://www.tenaris.com/en/products-and-services/qhse-certifications/?region. Archived from the original on 2022-03-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6spk5c9neU. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. https://web.archive.org/web/20200108220630/http://ir.tenaris.com:80/static-files/a9c0d163-22b4-4e4b-bbcc-46045c1fda94. Archived from the original on 2020-01-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. 2022 AIST Electric Arc Furnace Roundup
  21. 2022 AIST DRI & HBI Roundup
  22. http://www.midrex.com/wp-content/uploads/Midrex-Plants-Sheet2021-1.pdf:https://ir.tenaris.com/static-files/a9c0d163-22b4-4e4b-bbcc-46045c1fda94. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. 23.0 23.1 23.2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220318145710/https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2021.11.24_sectorial_-_siderurgia_version_web.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  24. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20221008040524/https://www.midrex.com/wp-content/uploads/MidrexSTATSBook2021.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-10-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  25. "2022 AIST DRI and HBI Roundup". Association for Iron & Steel Technology. January 2022. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  26. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20211129195124/https://www.midrex.com/wp-content/uploads/Midrex-STATSbookprint-2020.Final_.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-29. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. 27.0 27.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20211219160811/http://www.acero.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Produccion-Siderurgica-Argentina-1960-2021-.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  28. 28.0 28.1 (PDF) http://www.acero.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Produccion-Siderurgica-Argentina-1960-2022-.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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