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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.

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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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