Gerdau Sipar Pérez 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 650 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, rebar, mesh, bar.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 2017
Emissions
2025
0.023 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
650
EAF
650
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet, rebar, mesh, bar
Ownership
Owner Sipar Aceros SA
Parent Gerdau SA [98.1%]
Workforce 716 employees
Country Context
Argentina crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Pérez
Central & South America
Argentina
-32.9912°, -60.7589°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 650 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2017
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded