Siderurgica de Chimbote port Siderperú: sponge iron plant and electric ovens
Opened in 1956, is located in said city, the largest in the department of Ancash, north of Lima. It occupies an area of \u200b\u200bapproximately 600 hectares.
is one of the two steel plants with counts Peru (the other is the de Aceros Arequipa, Pisco).
has a blast furnace (the only country, which transforms the iron) as well as several electric furnaces, with their respective sponge iron plant (whose main input is scrap.) Used the modern system of continuous casting.
Its production capacity is 600 thousand tons of finished steel products, some of which is exported. There
reduction surgery is performed, steelmaking, rolled flat products, rolled non-flat products, coated flat products, tubular products, roads and numerous ancillary facilities.
Fabic products are: bars and rods for the construction of homes and buildings, corrugated roofing for warehouses, homes and industrial plants, structural plates for the manufacture of bridges and pipes, culverts and guardrails for roads and highways; bars mill for grinding ore, high carbon rods for the manufacture of steel balls for grinding mineral plates for the manufacture of structures and mine cars, rock support tubes, coils and plates hot and cold rolled metal industry manufacturer of mechanical structures, welded tubes, profiles, bodies, tanks and furniture, galvanized coils and sheets to make vents, and roof profiles, naval and structural plates for the manufacture of fishing vessels, etc.
blast furnace has a dock at the port of Chimbote, capable of receiving ships up to 50 thousand tons, and which is supplied with iron, coke, steel billets and other inputs as scrap.
belongs to the company Siderurgica del Peru (Siderperú), the same as to 1996 was state property, a situation that changed when it was privatized. Then, in 2006 passed to the Brazilian company Gerdau, which has since invested in it $ 150 million. Of that total, $ 80 million was allocated to the modernization of the plant and about $ 50 million for projects to mitigate environmental impact. One of these is the new collection system emissions (to reduce 99% of them), valued at $ 28 million.
between 2009 and 2010 the company was forced to shut down the blast furnace, due to the high prices of iron, coke and billets made it unfeasible to keep it in operation, providing time you switch when prices return to normal. For now, the production of steel is made only in electric furnaces from scrap.
is currently investing $ 14 million to expand by 70 thousand tons, from the end of 2011, production grinding bar. Also plans to invest U.S. $ 120 million over the next three years to improve the port (which will be dredged and may receive two vessels at a time), power generation, installation of a ladle furnace and improved mill. It takes into assessment additional $ 480 million, to expand and modernization of the mill and electric arc furnace, investment depends on demand and it will raise its production capacity from the current 600,000 to 1,400,000 tons, which would go entirely to the local market.
The year 2008 had provided a draft of more than U.S. $ 1.300 billion to raise its production capacity to three million tonnes in 2015 (which he planned export volume of 1.5 million). Unfortunately, the plan was rejected by the glut on the market.
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