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Aceros Arequipa Pisco

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Corporacion Aceros Arequipa SA · EAF route · Pisco, Central & South America, Peru

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Aceros Arequipa Pisco is a scrap-based steel plant: an electric arc furnace melts recycled steel scrap into new crude steel. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 1.3 million tonnes per year. Its main products are wire rod, plate, bar, rounds, round bar, angle, structures.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 1987

Emissions

2025

0.086 Mt CO₂e

0.09 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Typical EAF route: 0.5–0.7 t/t

Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

1,250

EAF

1,250

Production

Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.

Iron Units

DRI
unknown DRI (1)mothballed
40 ttpawiki
DRI
unknown DRI (2)mothballed
40 ttpawiki

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)mothballed
850 ttpa80 tDanieliwiki
EAF
unknown EAF (2)operating
1,250 ttpa120 tSMSwiki

Steel Products

wire rod, plate, bar, rounds, round bar, angle, structures

Ownership

Owner Corporacion Aceros Arequipa SA

Parent Corporacion Aceros Arequipa SA [100.0%]

Workforce 730 employees

Learn the processes this plant uses

Steelmaking

Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking

Secondary Metallurgy

Ladle Furnace (LF) — Secondary Metallurgy

Casting

Continuous Casting

Rolling

Hot Rolling

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