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Sider El Hadjar Annaba

announced

Groupe Industriel Sider SpA · DRI–EAF route · Sidi Amar, Africa, Algeria

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Sider El Hadjar Annaba follows the DRI–EAF route: iron ore is reduced in the solid state to direct reduced iron by direct reduction, then melted into steel in an electric arc furnace. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 1.7 million tonnes per year. Its main products are coil, rebar, sheet.

Process Route

DRIEAF

Timeline

Announced 1964

Emissions

2025

0.68 Mt CO₂e

0.73 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

1,700

EAF

1,700

DRI

2,500

Coking

1,200

Production

Ironproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker).

Iron Units

DRI
unknown DRI (1)announced
2,500 ttpawiki
BF
BF 2mothballed pre-retirement
1,500 ttparelined 2017wiki

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)mothballed
400 ttpawiki
EAF
unknown EAF (2)announced
1,700 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 1mothballed pre-retirement
350 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 2mothballed pre-retirement
wiki

Inputs & Energy

Met coal Russia

Steel Products

coil, rebar, sheet

Ownership

Owner Groupe Industriel Sider SpA

Parent Groupe Industriel Sider SpA [100.0%]

Workforce 5,748 employees

State ownership Full

Learn the processes this plant uses

Ironmaking

Direct Reduction (DRI / HBI)

Steelmaking

Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking

Secondary Metallurgy

Ladle Furnace (LF) — Secondary Metallurgy

Casting

Continuous Casting

Rolling

Hot Rolling

Nearby Plants

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Algerian Qatari Steel Jijel

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Menzel Bourguiba · ~191 km away

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