Acindar:
We are the privately-funded company producing non-flat
steel leading the Argentine market and we also conduct
business internationally.
We are currently enjoying a market share
over 50 per cent and offering over 200 product lines for
manufacturing, agriculture and construction.
Over two thousand people work at Acindar
every day to achieve outputs of 1,350,000 tons of steel
each year.
Minerals
Dock:
Iron minerals in the form of pellets or lumps arriving
on ships, 40 or 50 thousand tons on each, are unloaded
and transported to the storage plant by means of conveyor
belts.
Direct
Reduction: After the minerals are mixed, they
are fed gradually to the blast furnace, obtaining iron
that is nearly pure and called sponge iron.
Steel
Mill:
The raw material for steel making is 35% scrap metal and
65 % sponge iron, obtained from our direct reduction plant.
The steel mill includes three electric furnaces with 110-ton
capacity each, two of which are always in operation while
the third is in standby.
Two ladle furnaces use automated processes to add iron
alloys and other additives in order to produce several
types of steel.
We also have two six-strand continuous casters.
The basic products obtained from steel making are billets
and slabs.
Rolling
Mill N°1:
In the furnace of rolling mill N°1, billets and slabs
are reheated at the temperature required for each process
and then rolled in a combined mill that produces strips
to make pipes and bars for construction and manufacturing.
Rolling
Mill N°2:
In rolling mill N°2, billets from the steel mill are
heated in a furnace at the temperature required for rolling,
and then they are rolled in a two-strand Morgan mill to
obtain rolled wire.
