STEEL (LAS TRUCHAS)

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The project includes facilities for an iron ore mine and integrated iron and steel works to increase raw steel production by about 2.1 million metric tons annually and to produce about 1.7 million metric tons per year of flat finished steel products. The major project components are: (a) additional ore beneficiation facilities and agglomeration capacity of about 3.4 million tons per year; (b) 130 additional coke ovens designed to operate with indigenous coals with a capacity of about 1.3 million tons a year; (c) two new blast furnaces with a total capacity of about 6600 tons per day; (d) a new basic oxygen steelmaking plant with two 220 ton vessels; (e) a continuous casting plant with three twin strand slab casting machines, with a total capacity of about 2 million tons slab a year; (f) a new flat products rolling mill complex including a semi-continuous 60 inch hot strip mill and a cold reduction mill with related finishing facilities.