MIDREX® Plants with 3rd Quarter Anniversaries

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) Module II

Location: Hazira, Gujurat, India

DR Plant: 2^nd of 6 MIDREX® Modules

• Start-up: July 1990
• Product: HDRI/HBI
• Capacity: 0.44 Mt/y

Module II was one of two MIDREX Modules acquired from Nordeutsche Ferrowerke in Emden, Germany, disassembled, and relocated to India by Essar Steel India Limited (ESIL). AM/NS India acquired the assets of ESIL in December 2019.

Module II was adapted for hot discharge/hot transport to the melt shop in 2000, and oxygen injection was added.

Module II has produced more than 15.5 million metric tons (tonnes) since initial start-up, and all six modules combined have produced over 96 Mt of hot DRI (HDRI), hot briquetted iron (HBI), and cold DRI (CDRI) since start-up of Modules I and II in 1990.

Read more about ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India at https://www.amns.in

TT Iron Module I

Location: Point Lisas, Trinidad and Tobago

DR Plant: 1^st of 3 MIDREX® Modules

• Start-up: August 1980
• Product: CDRI
• Capacity: 0.44 Mt/y

TT Iron Steel Company (TT Iron) purchased the electric arc furnace-based (EAF) steel mill located in the Point Lisas Industrial Estate, Couva, Trinidad and Tobago, in mid-2023, and intends to produce low carbon emissions “green” steel using scrap and direct reduced iron (DRI) from a trio of MIDREX® Modules. The iron and steel complex was originally constructed for ISCOTT – the Iron and Steel Company of Trinidad and Tobago – and was most recently owned and operated by ArcelorMittal Point Lisas Ltd.

TT Iron plans to refurbish the facilities, starting with the EAF melt shop, and including the natural gas-based MIDREX Modules. ArcelorMittal ceased operations in 2016.

Read more about TT Iron Steel Company (TT Iron) at: https://ttiron.com