Marcegaglia is starting the design of its new sheet metal production plant in Fos-sur-Mer, southern France, a source close to the company told Kallanish. It is planned that the production of a new mini-plant for the production of flat rolled products, known as the Mistral project, will begin in 2028.
Italian equipment manufacturer Danieli has been tasked with delivering a mini-plant that will include complete production equipment for scrap preparation, electric steelmaking, slab casting and hot strip rolling. The new mini-plant will produce up to 2.1 million tons of hot-rolled stainless and carbon steel coils per year. It will provide the Marcegaglia cold rolling complex in Ravenna, meeting about 30% of the company's total HRC needs.
"The new electric steelmaking workshop will be equipped with a Danieli Fastarc Zerobucket furnace, equipped with an ECS continuous scrap loading system and a Tornado preheating system, as well as an adaptive Q-Melt process control system with autopilot," Danieli explains in his note. "Liquid steel will be processed into high-quality grades at refining stations with two buckets and vacuum degassers with two tanks, which will ensure high energy efficiency and reduce carbon and NOx emissions."
The mill design will provide Marcegaglia with flexible production facilities by integrating a Plug mill and a hot rolling mill. into a single configuration. The installation consists of a crate for roughing and a five-cage finishing mill. If necessary, the first crate will operate in Steckel mode. This configuration will allow the rolling of stainless steel slabs at the Marcegaglia plant in Sheffield in the Steckel mode. The carbon steel slab coming from the foundry will be processed continuously on a five-cell finishing mill.
The design includes water and smoke purification systems to ensure full compliance with environmental standards.
Marcegaglia has temporarily secured long-term supplies of low-carbon nuclear energy. the energy to power the object is in Phos. In June, the Italian steel group signed a letter of intent with French energy company EDF on a ten-year supply contract that will cover 50% of the future plant's energy needs.
Marcegaglia plans to invest almost 800 million euros ($937 million) in the former Ascometal facility, acquired in 2024. Since the acquisition last year, Ascometal in Fos-sur-Mer has been renamed Marcegaglia in Fos-sur-Mer. She will produce HRC and keep her EDP. Jacques-Yves Flock, former manager of ArcelorMittal in Dunkirk, has been appointed director of the plant. The company will be transformed
