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Ternium Siderar San Nicolás

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BF–BOF Integrated route · San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Central & South America, Argentina

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Ternium Siderar San Nicolás 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 about 3.5 million tonnes per year. Its main products are tinplate, slab, cold rolled, hot rolled.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating since 1960

Emissions

2025

3.95 Mt CO₂e

1.90 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Typical BF-BOF route: 1.8–2.0 t/t

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

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

3,501

BOF

3,501

Blast Furnace

4,015

Sinter

1,480

Coking

1,040

Production

Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.

Iron Units

BF
BF 1operating
1,387 ttpa1548 m³ · relined 2009Campana/McKeewiki
BF
BF 2operating
2,628 ttpa2340 m³ · relined 2008Paul Wurth/Head Wrightsonwiki

Steel Units

BOF
unknown BOF (1)operating
1,167 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (2)operating
1,167 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (3)operating
1,167 ttpawiki

Inputs & Energy

Power Thermoelectric, integrated

Steel Products

tinplate, slab, cold rolled, hot rolled

Ownership

Owner Ternium Argentina SA

Parent Ternium Argentina SA [100.0%]

Workforce 2,074 employees

Country Context

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

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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).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.