Coking Plant - ArcelorMittal

ArcelorMittal Asturias
J. Manuel Arias, CEO ArcelorMittal Asturias
March 2009
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Summary
• ArcelorMittal España
• ArcelorMittal Asturias
– Overview
– Safety
– Strengths
– Situation in Spain
– How is ArcelorMittal Asturias reacting to the crisis
– Gijón Factory - production facilities
– Avilés Factory - production facilities
– Shipments
– Environment / R&D
– Investments
– Conclusion
• Q&A
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ArcelorMittal España
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Creation of the world’s number one
steel company
2006
Creation of the world’s number one steel group
2001
Aceralia - Arbed – Usinor merger
1997
Creation of ACERALIA CORPORACIÓN SIDERÚRGICA and strategic alliance with
the ARBED Group. Integration of ARISTRAIN in Spain. Majority shareholding in
Belgo-Mineira and acquisition of UCIN
1994
Incorporation of CSI Corporación Siderúrgica, through the valuation of the
profitable assets of Corporación de la Siderurgia Integral. Business started in 1995
1991
Incorporation of CORPORACIÓN DE LA SIDERURGIA INTEGRAL
1902
1882 – Creation of
AA.HH. Fábrica de
Hierro y Acero Bilbao
1848 - Creation of
Sta. Ana de Bolueta
Creation of AHV
Fábrica
La Vizcaya
1848 - Creation of
Ntra. Sra. del
Carmen
Fábrica
La Iberia
1850 - Creation of
Fábrica de Merced
1950
1973
ENSIDESA
takes over UNINSA
1966
Creation of UNINSA
Creation of ENSIDESA
1850 - Creation of
Fábrica de Mieres
1857 - Creation of
Fábrica de La Felguera
4
(1880) - Creation
of
Fábrica de Moreda
Facilities of ArcelorMittal España
Geographic location of main production sites & 2008 production for sale
Production data in ktons
AVILÉS
- Hot rolled coils:
- Galvanised:
- Tinplate:
- Painted strip:
1,966
456
288
96
SESTAO (ACB)
- Hot rolled coils: 1,374
ETXEBARRI
- Tinplate:
- Galvanised:
305
83
OLABERRÍA
- Sections: 737
GIJÓN
- Wire rod:
409
- Rail:
287
- Heavy plate: 610
LANGREO (ASPERSA)
- Sandwich panels: 5
- Profiled sheet:
4
ZARAGOZA
-Merchant bars: 248
-Rebars: 84
Workforce: 12,413 employees
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10
LEGASA
- Painted strip:
85
LESAKA
- Hot rolled:
- Cold rolled:
- Galvanised:
117
79
115
SAGUNTO
- Cold rolled:
657
- Electrogalvanised: 180
- Galvanised:
512
BERGARA
-Sections:
388
-Merchant bars: 15
Sites of 3 sectors: FCE, LCE and Steel
Solutions and Services
Crude steel production: 8,158 kt
(49,9% BOF/ 50,1% EAF)
ArcelorMittal’s output accounts for 43,7% of
the Spanish crude steel production
BERRIOPLANO
- Panels:
- Open sections:
MADRID
- Sections: 449
ZUMÁRRAGA
- Wire rod:
217
- Special bars: 33
- Rebars:
238
TOLEDO
- Sandwich panels: 5
FLAT PRODUCTS
LONG PRODUCTS
Steel Solutions and Services
Not included: 34 distribution centres
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ArcelorMittal Asturias
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ArcelorMittal Asturias: location
Avilés
Gijón
Aviles
ASTURIAS
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ArcelorMittal Asturias management
Management Board
J. Manuel Arias
CEO
Vicente Suárez
CFO Controlling
Juan Carlos Menéndez
COO – Primary
Emmanuel Haton
COO – Downstream
– Quality responsibles:
Ángel Fco. SUÁREZ-VALDÉS (Primary)
José Luis Santos
COO – Long Products
Luis F. ESCODA (Long Products)
Jesús Suárez
Human Resources
Aurelio Gutiérrez
Central Technical Serv.
Javier Alfredo SÁNCHEZ (Finishing)
– Client service responsible: Francisco J. ÁLVAREZ-LINERA
– R & D responsible: Nicolás DE ABAJO
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ArcelorMittal in Asturias
Avilés
Gijón
Avilés Factory
•
Main facilities:
Coking Plant: 1.4 Mt
LDA Steel Plant: 4.2 Mt
Hot Strip Mill: 3.6 Mt
Galvanising Lines: 770,000 t
Tinplate Lines: 400,000 t
Organic Coating Line: 250,000 t
Main facilities:
Coking Plant: 957,000 t
Sinter Plants: 6,000,000 t
Blast Furnaces: 4.7 Mt
LDG Steel Plant: 1.1 Mt
Plate Mill: 600,000 t
Rail Mill: 380,000 t
Wire Rod Mill: 600,000 t
•
Facilities for flat carbon steel (hot rolled coils)
and coated products (galvanised sheet,
tinplate, organic coated sheet)
•
Sandwich panels: 1,000,000 m2/year
Products: heavy plate, rail and wire rod
•
Profiled sheet: 5.500 tpy
Langreo
Gijón Factory
•
•
Aspersa (Langreo)
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ArcelorMittal Asturias: production flow
Scrap
HOT ROLLED COILS
SLABS
Hot Strip Mill
Coal
(storage)
Pickling
PICKLED COILS
Converter Continuous
casting
Flat products
TINPLATE
Coke ovens
Tandem Mill
Blast Furnaces
Hot metal
Torpedo ladle
Continuous
annealing
Temper
Mills
Tinplate
lines
Batch annealing
GALVANISED
Desulphurisation
Galvanising lines
Tandem Mill
Sintering
ORGANIC COATED
Organic coating line
SLABS
HEAVY PLATE
BILLETS
Scrap
Converter
Continuous
casting
BLOOMS
Plate Mill
Wire Rod Mill
WIRE ROD
RAIL
Rail Mill
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Long products
Iron ore
(storage)
Safety performance evolution
Frequency rate =
6
No. of Lost time accidents x 10
Total hours worked
25
Own workforce
Subcontractors
20
In ArcelorMittal there cannot
be two levels in safety.
15
10
5
0
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Frequency rate
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Own workforce
5.80
3.52
2.36
1.59
1.68
1.90
1.53
Subcontractors
19.80
21.7
10.88
6.20
4.51
1.93
1.38
Total
25.60
25.22
13.24
7.79
6.19
3.83
2.91
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ArcelorMittal Asturias: Strengths
• Multi-Product Plant producing Hot Rolled Coils, Tinplate, Galvanised
sheet, Organic Coated sheet, Heavy Plate, Rail and Wire Rod.
• Fully integrated plant.
• Coke self-sufficient plant.
• Strategic location with port services close to the factories. Raw materials
are unloaded at the port of Gijón, which can receive vessels of up to 250kt.
Iron making facilities are linked to the port by belt conveyors.
• Its industrial configuration allows capacity to be increased across the
complete product range.
• Site experienced in shared services and with capacity to extend scope to
other activities and companies.
• Implementation of Arco Plan, a top management program, resulted in
substantial savings. Basis for further improvements.
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Situation in Spain
• Spain experiences a deep downturn with:
– Residential real estate activity plummets
– Lack of confidence leading to low household consumption
– A strong impact on automotive market
• In this economical environment, steel industry is more impacted in Spain
than in other countries in WE.
Spain - Steel using sector activity - growth year on year
15%
10%
5%
0%
-5%
-8,7%
-10%
-14,3%
2007
2003
1999
1995
1991
1987
1983
1979
1975
1971
-15%
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Spain – Economic outlook
Consumer confidence at its lowest level since 1990
and lower EU27 level…
Spain - Consumer confidence
(balance of opinion)
10
Spain
0
EU27
-10
-20
-30
Latest value: Dec-2008
-40
-50
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
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2009
How is ArcelorMittal Asturias reacting to the crisis?
•
ArcelorMIttal Asturias, being a multi-product site, is being less affected than other sites of the Group by the fall in
demand of the automotive and construction sectors.
•
The Asturian sites are currently being operated at 76% of their capacity thanks to the strength of some of its products:
rail, heavy plate and tinplate (in 2008 rail and tinplate mills reached their annual production records)
•
ArcelorMittal Asturias needs to respond to the current circumstances in a dynamic and flexible way.
•
Adaptability is key in order to pull out of this difficult period in a strong position.
•
Short term measures:
–
Reduce working capital. Minimize inventories (raw materials, slabs, working progress and final products)
–
Zero increase in CAPEX and OPEX. Investments are limited to safety, legal compliance and environmental
issues.
–
Adaptation of facility running to the load: in December, one of the two blast furnaces in Asturias was stopped. If
the situation remains unchanged, the furnace will have to be stopped again for a few months in Q3. In Finishing
facilities, one Hot Dip Galvanizing Line and one Organic Coating Line (both in Avilés) are currently stopped. Blast
furnaces are being operated in an “all-coke” mode and small diameter tuyeres are being used. Metallic charge is
adapted as a function of the scrap or hot metal requirements.
–
Client service improvement.
–
Maintenance of fixed costs in terms of €/t and reduction of SG&A expenditure.
–
Adaptation of internal and external headcount to workload. Flexibility on working time / advanced holidays / time
counters. Reassignment of own employees to other functions. No salary increase in 2009. Align variable pay
KPI’s and targets to current priorities and workload.
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How is ArcelorMittal Asturias reacting to the crisis?
• Mid term measures:
– We enter into a cyclic period which requires a flexible production system.
We should be able to increase or decrease production if needed.
– Local Continuous improvement plans must be accelerated.
– That means:
• Adapting the permanent workforce not to 100% of capacity but to an 80%
capacity baseline.
• Building flexible solutions to meet cyclic demand (e.g., hot-stoppage of
four of the eight coke-oven batteries in Avilés).
• Pursuing and rapidly capturing permanent productivity improvements.
• Twinning project:
– Galati site (Romania): Blast Furnaces and Heavy Plate Mill.
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Gijón Factory: main facilities
Heavy Plate Mill
Rail Mill
Wire Rod Mill
Main
entrance
Steel Plant
Blast
Furnaces
Coking Plant
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Gijón Factory: layout
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Raw materials (I)
EBHISA
(European Bulk Handling Installation - Gijón)
• Directly linked by conveyor belts to
ArcelorMittal Asturias’ ore and coal
yards.
• Main technical data:
– Three 50 t unloaders (maximum
daily unloading capacity: 100,000 t)
– Water depth: 21 m
– Capable of accepting vessels up to
250,000 t
– Total bulk throughput in 2008:
14,31 Mt
(154 vessels)
Total volume of raw materials unloaded
for ArcelorMittal Asturias (2008):
10,49 Mt (112 vessels)
Coking coal:
PCI coal:
Total coal:
Iron ore
lumps (6%)
3,20 Mt
0,94 Mt
4.14 Mt
Pellets
(15%)
Iron ore
fines (40%)
Iron ore fines:
Iron ore lumps:
Pellets:
Total ore:
Coking coal
(30%)
PCI coal (9%)
4,16 Mt
0,63 Mt
1,56 Mt
6,35 Mt
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Gijón: Raw material yards
• Aboño coal yard
– Supplies coking coal to the Gijón and Avilés
Coking Plants and PCI coal to the Blast Furnaces
– Linked by belt conveyors to the Gijón Factory and
by rail to the Avilés Coking Plant
– Unblended coal storage yard: 600,000 t
– Blending yard: 200,000 t
– Annual processing capacity: 7.6 Mt
• Ore yard
– Storage capacity: 700,000 t
– Area: 63.000 m2
– Four homogenisation beds: 80,000 t (beds 1 and
2) and 90,000 t (beds 3 and 4)
– Yard incoming flow rate: 2,500 t/h
– 35 km belt conveyor network
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Gijón: Sinter and Coking Plants
• Sinter Plants
– Two plants where iron ore fines
are heated and agglomerated
for subsequent use in the Blast
Furnaces
– Sinter Plant “A”: 2.65 Mtpy
– Sinter Plant “B”: 3.35 Mtpy
• Coking Plant - Gijón
– 90 ovens divided into two
batteries, with an annual
production capacity of 957,000 t
of blast furnace coke
– Production per oven: 22.5 t of
dry coke
– Coking time: 17 hours
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Gijón: Blast Furnaces
• Blast Furnaces
– These are the only two blast furnaces
in operation in Spain
– The process consists in reducing and
smelting the iron ore blend to
transform it into hot metal (liquid iron)
– Combined production capacity: 4.7
Mtpy of hot metal
– Height: 90 m
– Hearth diameter: 11.3 and 11.7 m
– Torpedo ladle capacity: 259 t
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Gijón: LDG Steel Plant
• LDG Steel Plant :
– Annual production capacity: 1.1 million tonnes (liquid steel)
– Two BOF converters (LD process), 117 t/heat
• Tap-to-tap time: 48 minutes (approx.)
– Three secondary metallurgy units (2 Ladle Furnaces &
Dehydrogenation-RH)
– Bloom Continuous Casting:
• Annual production capacity: 850,000 t (280x400 mm);
690,000 t (280x330 mm)
• Curved mould with 3 strands.
• Bloom cross-sections: 280x330, 280x400 mm
• Length: 4.5 – 8.0 m
– Billet Continuous Casting:
• Annual production capacity: 1.1 million tonnes
• Curved mould with 6 strands
• Billet formats: 150x150 mm
• Length: 9 - 15 m
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Gijón: Plate Mill
• Plate Mill:
– Annual production capacity: 600,000 t
– ArcelorMittal is the only heavy plate producer in
Spain
– Size range: plates in thicknesses from 5 to 150 mm;
widths from 1,500 to 3,300 mm and lengths from 4
to 15 m
Sales by geographical markets (2008)
Sales by sectors in the Spanish market (2008)
End users
5%
16%
Distributors
Windmills
Spain
31%
42%
International
(mainly EU
countries)
Shipbuilding
84%
22%
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Gijón: Rail Mill
• Rail Mill:
– Annual production capacity: 380,000 t
– Maximum rail length: 90 m
– Only Spanish producer of high-speed rail, a product subject to
the most stringent quality and reliability requirements
– Product range:
• From 40 to 73 kg/m
• Unit rails ranging from 12 to 90 m
• Long welded rails up to 288 m
• Any new type of rail can be produced to order for a minimum
volume of 6,000 t
Sales by geographical markets (2008)
Breakdown of sales by
type of product (2008)
15%
26%
Microalloyed
rail
45%
Spain
Other EU countries
RoW
High-speed rail
29%
85%
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Gijón: Wire Rod Mill
• Wire Rod Mill:
– Annual production capacity: 600,000 t
– 32 rolling stands
– High quality wire rod for the most
demanding applications (steelcord, cold
heading applications, springs for shock
absorbers, etc.)
– Size range: wire rod in diameters from
5.5 to 24 mm
Main markets (2008)
5% 2% 1%
Steelcord (tyres)
27%
Prestressed products
20%
High Carbon
Low Carbon
CHQ
Welding rods
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45%
Avilés Factory: main facilities
Coking Plant
Organic Coating Line
Cold Rolling Facilities
Galvanising and
Tinplate Lines
Hot Strip Mill
Steel Plant
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Avilés Factory: layout
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Avilés: Coking Plant
• Coking plant – Avilés:
– 240 ovens with a production of 1.4 Mtpy of coke
– Coking time ranges from 15 to 16 hours at
temperatures reaching over 1,200 ºC
– The plant has a coal yard with a storage capacity
of up to 25,000 t
– 2003-2009 environmental investment plan (over
EUR 53 million):
•
•
•
•
•
Replacement of coke oven doors and frames
Fume collection system on coke discharge side
Replacement of coal charge cars
Dust collection system in railcar loading area
New filters in quenching towers
•
Optimisation of biological water treatment plant
operation
Closure of main drain nº 7
New soda tank
•
•
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Avilés: LDA Steel Plant
• LDA Steel Plant :
– Annual production capacity: 4.2 million tonnes
– Two 270 m3 BOF converters (LD process), operated
alternately
– Tap-to-tap time: 30 minutes (approx.)
– Three secondary metallurgy units (RH/OB, Injection & CAS)
– Two double-strand continuous casters producing slabs to
feed the Hot Strip Mill (Avilés) and the Plate Mill (Gijón)
– Slab size range:
– Max. slab weight: 30 t
– Max. dimensions: 1,600 mm (width) x 11,700 mm (length)
– Thicknesses: 235 / 280 mm
LDA - Slab consumption breakdown (2008)
19%
HSM
Plate Mill
81%
Galvanising
Steel plant
Hot Strip Mill
Pickling
Tandem
Annealing
Org. coating
Temper
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Tinning
Avilés: HSM
• Hot Strip Mill (HSM):
– Maximum annual capacity: 3.6 Mt
– Main equipment:
•
•
•
•
Three reheating furnaces
One single-stand 4-high reversing roughing mill
Seven 4-high stands finishing mill
Two coilers
– Max. coil weight: 32 t
– Strip thickness ranges from 1.5 to 20 mm
Breakdown of HR coil shipments by destinations (2008)
20%
26%
Avilés Tandem 1
Avilés Tandem 2 (Tinplate)
Sagunto
11%
ArcelorMittal Bass-Indre
22%
Other customers
21%
Steel plant
Hot Strip Mill
Pickling
Tandem
Asturias 47%
Interworks 33 %
Other customers 20 %
Galvanising
Org. coating
Annealing
Temper
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Tinning
Avilés: Cold Rolling
Pickled coil shipments (2008)
Automotive 27%
20%
27%
• Pickling Line:
– Annual production capacity: 1.2 Mt
– Process speed: 250 m/min
Steel Distributors 51%
2%
Processing Industry 2%
(metal transformation,
stamping, welding, etc.)
• Tandem Cold Rolling Mill 1:
–
–
–
–
Annual production capacity: 1.4 Mt
Five 4-high stands
Minimum strip thickness: 0.30 mm
Maximum process speed: 1,200 m/min
51%
Fullhard coil shipments (2008)
4%
• Auxiliary lines:
– Temper mill
– Inspection and repair line with laser
welder
Interworks 20% (processing
inside ArcelorMittal group)
Processing Industry 49%
(metal transformation,
stamping, welding, etc.)
Interworks 47%
49%(processing inside
ArcelorMittal group)
47%
Steel Distributors
Galvanising
Steel plant
Hot Strip Mill
Pickling
Tandem
Annealing
Org. coating
Temper
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Tinning
Avilés: Galvanising Lines
• Galvanising Lines 1 and 2
–
–
Annual capacity: 770,000 t (250,000 t (L1) + 520,000 t (L2))
Continuous hot-dip galvanising process
–
Products for general industry (L1) and automotive (L2), including “exposed
part” grade
Maximum coil weight: 24 t (L1) and 35 t (L2)
–
–
Thicknesses ranging from 0.35 to 3 mm; widths from 600 to 1,600 mm;
lengths from 700 to 6,000 m (subject to coil diameter)
–
Main steel grades: steel for cold forming, structural elements, high yieldstrength steel, rephosphorised steel, steel for drawing applications, Dualphase and Bake-Hardening steels
Galvanised coils shipments (2008)
Automotive
(car makers) 44%
3%
Automotive (suppliers)
19%
23%
44%
11%
Construction Industry
11% (paneling, roofing,
etc.)
Metal Distributors 23%
Processing Industry 3%
(metal transformation,
stamping, welding, etc.)
Galvanising
19%
Steel plant
Hot Strip Mill
Pickling
Tandem
Annealing
Org. coating
Temper
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Tinning
Avilés: Organic Coating Line
• Organic Coating Line
– Annual production capacity: 250,000 tonnes
– Double-side organic coating in thicknesses ranging from
5 to 200 microns
– Substrate: cold-rolled or galvanised steel strip in widths
ranging from 600 to 1,600 mm and thicknesses from 0.2
to 1.25 mm
– Max. process speed: 130 m/min
– Organic coated strip for household appliances,
construction (indoor and outdoor applications) and
2%
general industry
13%
Construction Industry
85% (paneling, roofing,
etc.)
Organic coated coils
shipments (2008)
Metal Distributors 13%
85%
Processing Industry 2%
(metal transformation,
stamping, welding, etc.)
Galvanising
Steel plant
Hot Strip Mill
Pickling
Tandem
Annealing
Org. coating
Temper
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Tinning
Avilés: Packaging facilities
The Avilés factory includes a number of facilities
specialised in the production of steel for packaging
(tinplate):
•
Tandem Mill 2:
– Annual capacity: 600,000 t
– Minimum thickness: 0.17 mm
•
Batch annealing furnaces/Continuous annealing:
– Batch annealing furnaces capacity: 320,000 tpy
– Continuous annealing line capacity 300,000 tpy
•
Temper Mills 2 and 3:
– Maximum annual production capacity (both mills) 388,000 t
– Skin-pass mills with two 4-high stands (discontinuous process)
– Minimum thickness: 0.14 mm
•
Tinning lines 1 and 2
– Annual production capacity: 400.000 t (150,000 t + 250,000 t)
– Electrolytic tinning process
– Single reduction (SR), double reduction (DR) and DWI tinplate (for
beverage cans)
– Thickness range: 0.14 to 0.49 mm
27%
DWI
Tinplate shipments (2008)
Non DWI
73%
Galvanising
Steel plant
Hot Strip Mill
Pickling
Tandem
Annealing
Org. coating
Temper
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Tinning
Shipments by products
2008
2007
Total: 4069 t
2.025
62%
543
16%
481
15%
Figures in Mt
Tinplate
Plate
2.636
64%
620
15%
585
14%
244
7%
Flat
Total: 4112 t
271
7%
Long
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Environment
Integrated Environmental Authorisation
•
On May 2, 2008, the Environmental Management Service of the Regional Ministry of the Environment
and Rural Development, notified its Decision granting ArcelorMittal Asturias the Integrated Environmental
Authorisation, Dossier no. AAI-022/05. This Decision was published in the Official Gazette of the
Principality of Asturias (B.O.P.A.) on June 17, 2008.
Environmental Management Systems (EMSs)
•
In its Asturian facilities, ArcelorMittal has implemented four ISO14000-compliant
Environmental Management Systems, with their corresponding Monitoring
Committees.
CO2
•
•
Compliance with the Kyoto Commitment
Throughout the period, CO2 emissions have been below the levels of the CO2 emission allowances
granted under the National Allocation Plan
Recycling and waste-to-value solutions
•
•
•
The efficiency rate attained in waste reutilisation is currently > 90%
Waste treatments are selected according to the following order of preference:
– Direct internal recycling
– Internal waste-to-value processing
– Internal recycling with prior external waste-to-value treatment
– External recycling, with or without intermediate waste-to-value treatment
Ongoing research aimed at developing new recycling and waste-to-value
solutions
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Environment
Investments
• A significant effort in terms of investment has been made over the last years in all the facilities and
focussed on all environmental vectors (air, water, waste, soil, etc.)
• Environmental investments over the 2005-2007 period amounted to 90 M€
10%
2%
Both Factories
18%
70%
Air
Water
Waste/Byprod.
Others
Avilés Factory
Gijón Factory
6% 2%
15%
24%
2%
11%
68%
72%
Air
Water
Air
Water
Waste/By-prod.
Others
Waste/Byprod.
Others
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Enviroment
Gesma: environmental monitoring software tool
•
ArcelorMittal’s Continuous Improvement approach, coupled with the
growing concern of all stakeholders regarding the preservation of the
environment, led to the development of the GESMA Project.
•
The Environmental Management software GESMA, currently being
developed, is primarily aimed at:
•
–
Ensuring permanent awareness of the environmental conditions
of the facilities
–
Improving statistical treatment of the information
received/generated
–
Providing warning mechanisms relating to the environmental
conditions based on continuously monitored parameters (sms or
email warnings)
–
Automatic generation of reports meeting the monitoring
requirements defined by the Public Authorities.
–
Follow-up of the most significant environmental management
KPIs for subsequent analysis by ArcelorMittal Asturias’ EMS
Committees
–
Improved operational control of the environmental variables of
existing water treatment plants and future connections to the
Industrial Main Sewer
GESMA is a dynamic software tool, i.e. it not only provides the means
to efficiently manage the environmental data but can also be
continuously enhanced and expanded in line with the evolution of
investments, new requirements or new needs identified (CO2,
dispersion models, etc...)
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Research Organization
Asturias (Avilés)
• Main missions
– To support ArcelorMittal plants in delivering fast, high value process solutions for
their deployment worldwide.
– To contribute with referential solutions for improving environmental footprint
– To help ArcelorMittal to make more efficient Business decisions
• Activities
– Total Process Control: Intelligent Manufacturing, Maintenance, Safety,…
– Energy, Environmental and Recycling solutions
– Supply Chain and Technoeconomic decision support tools
• Key R&D facilities
– Mechatronics and Monitoring labs (on-going)
– Combustion and Water pilot plants (on-going)
– Management Science and Data Mining modelling labs
– Open innovation (using partners labs and direct implementation in-site)
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Research Organization
Asturias (Avilés)
Resp: Nicolas de ABAJO
# 50 Engineers + Technicians
Industrial Enhancement
Mechatronics, Sensors and Monitoring
INDEX
Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management
Production, Energy, Environment,
Recycling and Safety
PEERS
Business & Supply Chain
Innovation
KiN
Pipe-end Technologies (Water, Air,…) and By-products
Energy and Combustion
Vertical Integration Commercial, Planning,
Logistics, Global allocation models,,…
CETICA (Construction)
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Investments in 2008 & B2009
• CAPEX : 94 M€
• Main items of environmental and maintenance capex :
– Environmental investments in Avilés Coke Plant: 11 M€.
– New row of staves in Gijón Blast Furnaces: 2 M€.
– Heavy Plate Mill revamping: 2 M€.
– Legal requirements: 5 M€.
– Avilés Coke Plant: 15 M€.
– Heavy Plate Mill revamping: 5 M€.
– Rail Mill: 5 M€.
– Gas holders: 3 M€.
– Rolls: 9 M€.
• Budget 2009:
– Zero increase in environmental projects as compared to 2008 (legal
requirements, environmental issues, upgrading of Gijón Coke Plant)
and maintenance capex of 35 M€ (long+flat+rolls).
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Conclusion
• ArcelorMittal Asturias: Integrated, multi-product site (flat and
long products) with maximum capacity of 5 Mt of liquid steel per
year.
• To react to the current crisis, ArcelorMittal Asturias is adjusting
its production to market demand, maintaining its fixed costs and
with zero increase in environmental capex, while adjusting
internal and external personnel to production requirements.
• ArcelorMittal Asturias’ strength is based on the variety of
products that are manufactured in its facilities, as some of these
products are not being affected by a shrinking demand (rail,
tinplate and heavy plate).
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