ArcelorMittal to Improve Fos-sur-Mer Plant France Environment

ArcelorMittal France’s Fos-sur-Mer plant in the Bouches du Rhône in France is in the process of reducing its environmental footprint. The current program further accelerates the dynamic of environmental improvements, with more than EUR 50 million of investment devoted to better environmental protection over the period 2021-2023. The major project in this area concerns the Agglomeration unit, where our teams are currently installing an innovative filter. Covering an area of 20,000 square meters, this filtration system will reduce dust emissions from this production unit by 40%, the equivalent of 15% of the site's channeled dust emissions. The commissioning of the first phase of this investment of EUR 20 million is scheduled for 2022. This project is financed with the assistance of the European Union, with the European Regional Development Fund.

Faced with significant environmental challenges in recent years, it continues to work and invest. The environment is a priority for investment and action which has represented a program of more than EUR 100 million over the last 10 years (2010-2020). Several environmental protection units have been commissioned: Coke oven gas desulphurization, dust removal at the charging of the steelworks converters, low NOX burners at the slab furnaces of the Band Train, etc. Over the period 2010-2020, the site's emissions were greatly reduced buy 45% for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide, 70% for dust, 79% for benzene and 85% for dioxins. The plant's atmospheric emissions have been compliant for several years in annual value with the limits of our operating permit.

La Cokerie has, in parallel with this program of 100 million euros, benefited from a complete refurbishment of its 126 ovens: an investment of 150 million euros.

Other projects are underway: the construction of a new blast-furnace gas storage facility, the commissioning of a new furnace at the Cokerie…. An investment project in an automatic candle ignition system (safety device for our installation) at the Coke oven will ensure the combustion of coke oven gas in the event of an incident. This system has been operational manually since March and will be in automatic mode from July 2022.

ArcelorMittal to Improve Fos-sur-Mer Plant France Environment

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