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Grupo Gallardo Corrugados Azpeitia

retired

Cristian Lay SL · EAF route · Azpeitia, Europe, Spain

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Grupo Gallardo Corrugados Azpeitia 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 800 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, coil, rebar.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Retired 2013

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

800

EAF

800

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)retired
800 ttpawiki

Steel Products

billet, coil, rebar

Ownership

Owner Cristian Lay SL

Parent Cristian Lay SL [100.0%]

Workforce 300 employees

Country Context

Spain crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).