Vallourec Jeceaba steel plant

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Vallourec Jeceaba steel plant (Usina siderúrgica de Jeceaba), also known as VSB (Vallourec & Sumitomo Tubos do Brasil), is a steel plant in Jeceaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) and blast furnace (BF) technology.

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  • Location: Distrito Industrial, S/N, 35.498-000 - Jeceaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): -20.582683, -43.971555 (exact)

Background

Vallourec Jeceaba steel plant, also commonly known as Vallourec & Sumitomo Tubos do Brasil (VSB), is a Brazilian steel company belonging to the joint venture formed by the French group Vallourec and the Japanese Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC).[1] The plant specializes in producing seamless steel pipes for the oil and gas industry.[2]

Located in the municipality of Jeceaba, 100 km from Belo Horizonte in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the R$3.2 billion, 2.5 million m² steel complex was announced in 2007 and inaugurated on September 1, 2011 by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.[3][4]

The Jeceaba plant is equipped with a Tenova electric arc furnace[5] and has the capacity to produce 1 million tons of crude steel annually.[3] The plant's seamless pipe production capacity is listed at 600,000 tpa.[6]

In 2018, plant owner Vallourec moved its blast furnace operations from Belo Horizonte to Jeceaba, giving the Jeceaba plant the additional capacity to produce up to 300,000 tpa of pig iron.[7] Other facilities at the plant include a continuous caster, ladle furnace and seamless tube mill supplied by Germany's SMS Group GmbH.[8]

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Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Start date Workforce size Iron ore source
2011[9][10][11] 2500[10][12][13] Pau Branco mine, Serra da Moeda, Brumadinho, MG, Brazil[14]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent GEM entity ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner GEM entity ID
Vallourec SA [100.0%] 4295867374 [100.0%] E100001010324 [100.0%] Vallourec Soluções Tubulares do Brasil SA [100%][9] 5001083353 E100000130951 [100%]

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Responsible steel Main production equipment
finished rolled[9] pipe[9] energy[9] yes[15] yes[15] unknown[16] BF; 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 1000[17][18][10][19] 1000[17][18][10][19]

Table 5: Plant-level Crude Iron 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 Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
cancelled 500[20] 500[20]
operating 350[21] 350[21]

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Ferronickel Sinter Coke Pellets
NF 0[22] 0[22] >0[15]

Table 7: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year EAF production Total (all routes)
2019 705[23] 705[23]
2020 588[24] 588[24]
2021 710[25] 710[25]
2022 776[26] 776[26]
2023 684[22] 684[22]
2024 664[27] 664[27]

Table 8: Actual Plant-level Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year BF production Total (all routes)
2019 335[28] 335[28]
2020 343[28] 343[28]
2021 320[29] 320[29]
2022 291[21] 291[21]
2023 304[30] 304[30]
2024 291[27] 291[27]

Unit Details

Table 9: Blast Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Furnace manufacturer and model Current size Current capacity (ttpa) Decarbonization technology
BF 1 cancelled[10][31][32][33][34] – Paul Wurth Paul Wurth Modern Blast Furnace Design[35][32][36] 350.0 m3[32] 500[20] unknown
BF 2 operating[37][38][39][40][31][32][33][41][34] 2014[37][38][10][39][40][31][32][33][34] Paul Wurth Paul Wurth Modern Blast Furnace Design[35][32][36] 350.0 m3[32] 350[21] unknown

Table 10: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Furnace manufacturer and model Current capacity (ttpa) Current size (tonnes)
unknown EAF (1) operating[42][34][15] 2011[17][18] Tenova Consteel[17][10][17] 1000[18][10][17][19] 200.0[10]

Table 11: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name Scrap-based % scrap % pig iron (unknown if basic/merchant or granulated)
unknown EAF (1) yes[10][42][15] 63.00[15][19] 37.00[15][19]

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References

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