United Steel Industrial Kuwait Steel Sharq plant

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United Steel Industrial Kuwait Steel Sharq plant (حديد الكويت), also known as KWT Steel, is a steel plant in Shuaibah, Shuaiba Industrial Area, Ahmadi, Kuwait that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Shuaibah, Shuaiba Industrial Area, Ahmadi, Kuwait:

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Location: Block 4 St. MA-8, Plot 71
Coordinates (WGS 84): 28.989306, 48.128118 (exact)

Background

The United Steel Industrial Company (Kuwait Steel) is a private company that was established in 1996. In 2007, the company established its own steel making plant with annual production capacity of 1.2 million metric tons of steel billets.^[1]

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Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details


Start date	Workforce size
2007^[2]	900^[3]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information


State-owned entity status	Parent company	Parent company PermID	Parent GEM entity ID	Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner GEM entity ID
Partial	Bukhamseen Holding Group Co; Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development & Renovation Organization	5085880758; 5000935267	E100001016268; E100000000547	United Steel Industries Co KSCC [100%]^[4]	5000492218	E100000130936 [100%]

Table 3: Process and Products


Steel product category	Steel products	ISO 14001	ISO 50001	Main production equipment
crude, semi-finished, finished rolled^[5]	billet, rebar^[5]	yes^[6]	unknown^[7]	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	1200^[8]	1200^[8]

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


Sinter	Pellets
NF^[8]	NF^[8]

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	unknown
2025	>0^[9]	–^[9]

Unit Details

Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Details


Unit name	Status	Start date	Furnace manufacturer and model	Current capacity (ttpa)	Current size (tonnes)
unknown EAF (1)	operating^[6]	2007^[8]	Danieli^[2]	1200^[8]	120.0^[10]^[11]

Table 8: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details


Unit name	Scrap-based	% scrap	% DRI	% HBI	% sponge iron (unknown if DRI or HBI)
unknown EAF (1)	yes^[2]	80.00^[2]	>0^[11]	>0^[11]	20.00^[11]

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References

↑ "KuwaitSteel". www.kwtsteel.com. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
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Resources

[1] "KuwaitSteel". www.kwtsteel.com. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

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