ArcelorMittal Gent
Installations
- 2 sinter plants
- coking plant with 2 coke-oven batteries
- 2 blast furnaces
- pulverised coal injection equipment
- ladle furnace steel shop
- BOF steel shop
- converter gas recovery
- 2 vacuum degassing installations in the steel shop
- secondary dust removal system in the steel shop
- 2 continuous slabcasters
- wide hot strip mill
- E2/R2 reversing rougher in the hot strip mill
- 3 walking beam furnaces in the hot strip mill
- finishing mill with seven rolling stands in the hot strip mill
- 1 cold rolling mill with 2 tandem mills
- continuous annealing and BAF (batch annealing) section
- 2 pickling lines coupled to modernised tandems
- 3 hot dip galvanising lines
- 1 organic coating line
- Steelanol
- Torero
Products
Flat products with a high added value: hot and/or cold reduced and/or metallic and organic coated coils - typically used:
- in car bodies for the automotive industry
- for containers, drums and tanks
- for radiators
- for construction elements (stairways, ceilings, wall panels,...)
- for furniture
- for household appliances
- for tubes
- for railway equipment and road equipment such as traffic signs
Other products:
- Blast Furnace slag for the cement sector
- Ethanol for transport sector
- Biocoal - used internally to reduce fossil coal consumption
