Sidor Ciudad Guayana
operatingSiderurgica del Orinoco Alfredo Maneiro CA · DRI–EAF route · Guayana City, Central & South America, Venezuela
GEM wikiSidor Ciudad Guayana 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 1.0 million tonnes per year.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1962
Emissions
2025
0.024 Mt CO₂e
0.82 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
1,020
EAF
1,020
DRI
1,290
Pelletising
1,825
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Iron Units
Steel Units
Steel Products
tinplate, ingot, wire rod, rebar, sheet, bar, cold rolled, billet, hot rolled, slab
Ownership
Owner Siderurgica del Orinoco Alfredo Maneiro CA
Parent Siderurgica del Orinoco Alfredo Maneiro CA [100.0%]
Workforce 12,676 employees
State ownership Full
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Location
Guayana City
Central & South America
Venezuela
8.2591°, -62.8411°
At a Glance
- Route
- DRI–EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,020 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1962
- Products
- Crude, semi-finished, finished rolled