Company Overview

Ajaokuta Steel Company is located on 24,000 hectares of sprawling green-field land-mass. The Steel Plant itself is built on 800-hectares of land. The chosen Technology for Steel Production is the time tested Blast-Furnace – Basic Oxygen Furnace route for Steel Production.

The Ajaokuta Steel Plant’s major units are as follows.

OVERVIEW

• Integrated Steel Plant based on BF- BOF Route
• Installed capacity – 1.3 Million Tonnes PA
• Provision to increase Capacity to 2.6 Million Tonnes and further to 5.2 Million Tonnes PA
• Rolling commenced November ’04
• Rolling Entire Range
• Wire rod 5.5 mm- 12 mm
• Rebars 8 mm – 30 mm

PLANT FACILITIES

• Coke Batteries - 0.88 MTPA capacity
• Sinter Plant - 2.6 MTPA of fluxed sinter
• Blast Furnace - 1.3 MTPA of hot metal.
• Two Basic Oxygen Furnaces – (130 tons each) 1.3 MTPA.
• Three continuous bloom casters of four strands each.
• Billet Mill - 795,000 TPA
• Wire Rod Mill (WRM) - 130,000 TPA
• Light Section Mill (LSM) - 400,000 TPA
• Medium Section and Structural Mills (MSSM) - 560,000 TPA
• Thermal Power Plant can produce a total of 110 MW from 2 generators of 55MW each.

Among the auxiliary plants are the

• Lime Production Plant,
• Alumino Silicate Refactory Plant and
• Tar bonded Dolomite Plant.

These major units are serviced by an array of water treatment and recirculation facilities and extensive gas facilities. A captive Power Plant of capacity 110mw is to provide an alternative source of power to the Steel Plant.

Engineering Complex:

Engineering Complex as one of the auxiliary units adequately equipped with machines and equipment for the manufacture of spare parts and fixtures of various specifications.

CAPABILITY

Billets

• 100 x 100 mm

WRM

• Wire rods of size between 5.5 mm to 12.5 mm.
• Re bars of size between 6.0 mm to 12 mm.

LSM

• Plain and re bars10 mm to 30 mm
• Squares10 mm to 30 mm.
• Hexagons10 – 14 mm , 20 and 26.
• Angles25x25 mm to 50x50 mm in thickness between 3 mm to 6mm.
• Channels30 mm to 45 mm.
• T – sections30 mm to 60 mm.
• Strips6-12 ( t ) x 12 - 70 ( w )mm

MSSM

• I beams80 mm to 300 mm.
• Channels80 mm to 300 mm.
• Equal angles70 x 70 mm up to130x130 mm.
• Un equal angles.50x80 mm and 100 x 160 mm.
• Flats70 mm to 150 mm width x 10 to 20 mm in thickness.