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AG Sidegua Masagua

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Corporación AG SA · EAF route · Masagua, Central & South America, Guatemala

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AG Sidegua Masagua 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 500 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, rod, profile.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Construction1991
Operating1994

Emissions

2025

0.021 Mt CO₂e

0.08 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

500

EAF

500

Production

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

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating
500 ttpa60 tFuchswiki

Steel Products

billet, rod, profile

Ownership

Owner Corporación AG SA

Parent Fundacion Jose Luis Gabriel; Industrial Assets Fund LP

Workforce 1,080 employees

Learn the processes this plant uses

Steelmaking

Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking

Secondary Metallurgy

Ladle Furnace (LF) — Secondary Metallurgy

Casting

Continuous Casting

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