Arcelor Mittal – Sestao

SESTAO
(Spain)

ArcelorMittal Sestao (AMS) belongs to the ArcelorMittal Europe organization which is the biggest entity in steel making and mining operation in the whole world. It is a metallurgical plant located in Sestao (Bizkaia,Spain) that produces a large variety of steel product families that lead to all kind of markets: Automotive, Agriculture, Heavy industries, Mining and Construction. It is one of the only nine European industries that produces hot rolled coils, starting from scrap for all propose industries.

In the last few years ArcelorMittalSestao has dedicated big efforts to the valorization of slag that is produced in the steelmaking process, aiming to improve the sustainability of the electric arc furnace production route of steel. To do so, it tookpart in the ReSlag project funded by the European Commission (H2020-WASTE-2014 GA nº 64067) and led by CIC energiGUNE, of which the present LIFE HI4S seeks to be its continuation.

In this project, the pilot plant will be constructed in ArcelorMittal Sestao as pilot site to demonstrate its feasibility. 

Web site: http://www.arcelormittal.com