Rio Tinto Fer et Titane steel plant

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Rio Tinto Fer et Titane steel plant, also known as QIT-Fer et Titatane Inc. (predecessor); Rio Tinto Quebec, is a basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada.

Location

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  • Location: 1625, Marie-Victorin Road, Sorel-Tracy Quebec J3R 1M6, Canada
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 46.044367, -73.138474 (exact)

Background

The Rio Tinto Fer et Titane steel plant began operating in 1986. The facility also refines titanium dioxide.[1] In February 2021, Rio Tinto announced they would be exploring the production of a low-carbon steel feedstock at their steel plant sites in Canada along with Paul Wurth (a Luxembourg-based engineering company) and SHS-Stahl-Holding-Saar (a management holding of the two large Saarland-based steel companies).[2] In October 2021, Rio Tinto Fer et Titante announced that some of their facilities had switched to using plant matter known as lignocellulosic biomass, instead of coal, as a chemical reductant in the steel-making process in the hopes of cutting the steel industry's emissions.[3]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
Operating[4] 1950[5][6] 1400[7]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
Rio Tinto PLC [100.0%] 4295894786 [100%] E100000001119 [100%] Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium Canada Inc[5] 5071504912 E100000131063

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel sector end users Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[4] automotive; energy[4] BOF[8] 1 BOF (began in 1980)[8]

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* Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 600 TTPA[8] 600 TTPA[8]

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References

  1. "Rio Tinto (Corporation)". Wikipedia. Retrieved 2021-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Rio-Tinto teams up with Paul Wurth and SHS-Stahl-Holding-Saar on low-carbon iron in Canada". Rio Tinto. 2021-02-16. Retrieved 2021-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Rio-Tinto-targets-low-carbon-steel-production-with-new-technology". Rio Tinto. 2021-10-13. Retrieved 2021-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20240125062409/https://www.riotinto.com/en/operations/canada/rio-tinto-fer-et-titane. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. 5.0 5.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20211019020628/https://minedocs.com/21/Rio-Tinto-RTFT-site-tour-CP-09142012.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20220627174240/https://www.riotinto.com/en/can/canada-operations/rio-tinto-fer-et-titane. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20221029161930/https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/canada-invest-rd-cutting-emissions-quebec-rio-tinto-plant-2022-10-11/. Archived from the original on 29 October 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "2023 AIST Basic Oxygen Furnace Roundup". Association for Iron & Steel Technology. January 2023. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)

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