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Lanwa Steel Hambantota

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Ceylon Steel Co Ltd · BF–BOF Integrated route · Hambantota, Asia Pacific, Sri Lanka

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Lanwa Steel Hambantota makes steel by the integrated route: iron ore is smelted into liquid hot metal in a blast furnace, then refined into crude steel in a basic oxygen furnace. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of 600 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are pipe, billet, wire rod, rebar.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Announced2021
Construction2022

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

600

BOF

600

Iron Units

BF
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Steel Units

BOF
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Inputs & Energy

Power captive power plant

Steel Products

pipe, billet, wire rod, rebar

Ownership

Owner Ceylon Steel Co Ltd

Parent Ceylon Steel Co Ltd [100.0%]

Workforce 1,500 employees

State ownership Full

Learn the processes this plant uses

Steelmaking

Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) Steelmaking

Secondary Metallurgy

Ladle Furnace (LF) — Secondary Metallurgy

Casting

Continuous Casting

Rolling

Hot Rolling

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