Riva Alpa Gargenville steel plant

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Riva Alpa Gargenville steel plant is an electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Gargenville, Île-de-France, France.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Gargenville, Île-de-France, France:

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  • Location: ZI de Limay Porcheville Immeuble Alpa FR-78440 GARGENVILLE, France
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 48.983515, 1.76245 (exact)

Background

Construction for the Riva Alpa Gargenville steel plant began in 1973 after industrialist Otto Lazar bought 14 hectares of land in France and decided to build a steel mill. In 1974, the mill began operating under the name ALPA - Aciéries et Laminoirs de Paris. In 1976, the company became a subsidiary of the Group Usinor Unimetal.[1]

Little other public information is available about the Riva Alpa Gargenville steel plant; no environmental or safety incidents have been recorded.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
Operating[2] 1974[3] 186[4]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
Riva Forni Elettrici SpA [100.0%] 5039934846 [100%] E100000131000 [100%] Alpa SAS[3] 4297626020 E100001010374

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[3] billet; rebar[3] building and infrastructure[5] 2021[6] 2021[6] EAF[3] 1 EAF (75-tonnes)[3][7]

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 700 TTPA[7] 700 TTPA[7]

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References

  1. "Alpa - Gargenville". Riva Group. Retrieved 2022-02-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20220318142508/https://www.rivaacier.com/en/production_sites/alpa-gargenville. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 https://web.archive.org/web/20240125060422/https://www.rivagroup.com/en/production_sites/alpa_gargenville. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20240111033252/https://www.rivagroup.com/en/production_sites. Archived from the original on 11 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20240111032633/https://www.rivaacier.com/en/about_us/our_steel. Archived from the original on 11 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. 6.0 6.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240111035250/https://www.rivaacier.com/en/certifications/alpa-gargenville. Archived from the original on 11 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220318115528/https://www.eurofer.eu/assets/Uploads/Map-20191113_Eurofer_SteelIndustry_Rev3-has-stainless.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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