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2017 Capital Investments

Steel Industry Capex

2017 Steel Sector Capital Investments
Country	Investor	Facility	Equipment	Capacity kt	Capex $m
Ecuador	Adelca	Adelca Works	EAF/CC/Bar	400	156
Ethiopia	Ekos Steel	Not disclosed	Bar mill	300	60
Germany	Salzgitter	Flachstahl	Vacuum degas	n/a	88.8
India	RINL	Visakhapatnam	Coke plant	840	375
India	JSW Steel	Tarapur	Tin plate line	200	95.6
India	JSW Steel	Dolvi	Coke ovens	1500	266.8
Mexico	Grupo Simec	Apisaco	EAF/CC/sbq	600	600
Nigeria	Jiangsu Yulong Steel Pipe	Not disclosed	Welded tube	400	n/a
Russia	Investitsionno-Stroitelniye Tek.	Not disclosed	EAF/CC/Bar	350	152
Russia	NLMK	Lipetsk	PCI, BF#6 & #7	7400	114
Russia	Severstal	Cherepovets	Ladle furnace	4800	45.3
Saudi Arabia	Gulf Tubing Co	Ras Al Khair plant	EAF/Seamless	600	1000
Slovenia	Slovenian Steel Group	Acroni	AOD	n/a	36
South Africa	Indust Development Corp/Hebei	Not specified	BOF/CC/+++	3000	2800
Thailand	Kobelco Millcon Steel Co	KMS Works	Rod mill	480	n/a
Turkey	Erdemir Group	Erdemir	HDG	350	120
UAE	Dubai Investment Inds/Bildco	Mussaffah Steel	Bar mill	300	68.1
USA	Nuco Steel Bar Technologies,	Valparaiso Works	Cold drawing	80	36.9
USA	OCT Pipe	Norfolk	Seamless tube	350	125
USA	Steel Dynamics	Columbus	Organic coating	226.75	100
USA	Tianjin Pipe Corporation	Corpus Christi	Seamless tube	500	1300
USA	US Steel	Fairfield Plant	EAF	982	n/a
Zimbabwe	Essar Group	Chivhu location	Beneficn plant	25000	4000

All investment and modernisation projects above are scheduled for start-up in 2017. Capacity data is in metric tonnes.

MCI compiles a database of over 700 modernisation projects in the international iron and steel industry. This database contains individual modernisation records identifying the country, investor, facility, capacity impact, capital cost, capex cost per tonne, commissioning date etc. Please email info@steelonthenet.com or call +44 775 149 0885 for further information.