Aviles (EFE) Wednesday caused damage to the blast furnace A in Gijón.
The ERTE would affect the workforce of the cluster that includes the Asturias, Sagunto, Etxebarri and Lesaka plants, union sources have informed EFE.
The unions consider that the company’s decision is premature and have asked to wait to know the true extent of the damage registered in the blast furnace.
For the moment, ArcelorMittal has verified the perforation of the crucible, the lower part of the blast furnace where the pig iron is deposited, the molten material obtained in the blast furnace by reducing iron ore.
The incident, which forced the evacuation of personnel, occurred at around 5:50 p.m. on Wednesday during a scheduled maintenance operation.
During this intervention, an internal reaction occurred due to contact of the pig iron with water inside the crucible of the furnace, which caused a large fire that was put out by the company’s firefighters.
The reaction caused pig iron to escape through the wall of the crucible and through the nozzle that was going to be replaced, according to ArcelorMittal, who has yet to clarify the origin of the presence of water inside the crucible.
Balance of damages in a week
The steel company expects the extent of the damage within a week to assess the possibility of repairing facilities whose useful life was scheduled for approximately 2025.
The union organizations will hold a new meeting next Friday, now with all the data that allow the damage to be assessed.
The incident will force the facilities to stop for at least two months and that is why the company has proposed the application of an ERTE for all the workers on its staff.
The blast furnace A in Gijón resumed activity on February 6 after being stopped since the end of last September due to the contraction in demand for steel products.
ArcelorMittal presented in July 2021 a plan to decarbonise its production that proposed replacing this blast furnace with a direct iron ore reduction plant, which would initially use natural gas and then green hydrogen, and a hybrid furnace of Electric arc.
Last February, the European Commission approved Spanish state aid of 460 million euros for this project, which would have an investment of 1,000 million euros and which is still pending final approval by the steel multinational. EFE
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