Thy Marcinelle Charleroi steel plant

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Thy Marcinelle Charleroi steel plant is a steel plant in Charleroi, Wallonne, Belgium that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

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Location: Rue De L’ Acier, 1, B-6000 Charleroi, Belgium
Coordinates (WGS 84): 50.410335, 4.429693 (exact)

Background

The Thy-Marcinelle company was started in 1763, originally with a blast furnace producing only iron. In 1989, the company was acquired by the Riva Group and a new EAF based steel plant was constructed.^[1]

In 2024, Thy-Marcinelle acquired the adjascent Carsid agglomeration site to expand their operations in order to relocated byproduct material, such as slag, away from city limits and enhance their scrap storage and sorting capabilities.^[2]

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Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details


Start date	Workforce size
1989^[3]	445^[3]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information


Parent company	Parent company PermID	Parent GEM entity ID	Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner GEM entity ID
Riva Forni Elettrici SpA [100.0%]	5039934846 [100.0%]	E100000131000 [100.0%]	Thy-Marcinelle SA [100%]^[4]	4296671968	E100001010367 [100%]

Table 3: Process and Products


Steel product category	Steel products	Steel sector end users	ISO 14001	ISO 50001	Responsible steel	Main production equipment
semi-finished, finished rolled^[5]^[3]	wire rod, rebar, mesh, billet^[3]	building and infrastructure^[6]	2024-03-22^[7]	unknown^[8]	unknown	EAF

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

¹Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status¹	Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity	Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating	800^[3]	800^[3]

Table 5: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)


Ferronickel
NF^[3]

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


Year	EAF production	Other/unknown steel production
2019	unknown	unknown
2020	unknown	unknown
2021	unknown	unknown
2022	unknown^[3]	–^[3]
2023	unknown	unknown

Unit Details

Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Details


Unit name	Status	Start date	Current capacity (ttpa)
unknown EAF (1)	operating^[3]	1990^[9]	800^[3]

Table 8: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details


Unit name	Scrap-based	% scrap
unknown EAF (1)	yes^[3]	100.00^[3]

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References

↑ "Thy-Marcinelle". thy-marcinelle.com. Retrieved November 3rd, 2025. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ https://www.steelbel.be/images/reports/2023UK.pdf
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Resources

Company website

[1] "Thy-Marcinelle". thy-marcinelle.com. Retrieved November 3rd, 2025. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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