LIBYAN IRON AND STEEL

LISCO is now exporting all its products worldwide

across two separate facilities , which allows it to produce several different steel products . Its billets and blooms plant has an annual designed production capacity of 670,000 tonnes of liquid steel which converts to 630,000 tonnes ; this was expanded in 2008 to produce one million tonnes . The plant uses three electrical arc furnaces which each have a capacity of 90 tonnes .

Complementing this facility is LISCO ’ s steel slab plant which has an equal number of 90- ton arc furnaces providing a designed annual output of 650,000 tonnes of liquid steel that converts to 611,000 tonnes per year of slabs .

. THE PARTNER YOU CAN RELY ON .

Samarco is a Brazilian mining company that produces high-quality iron ore pellets for the global steel industry . Our production and logistics system is 100 % independent and integrated , from our mine to the port . Our production capacity of 30.5 million tons of iron ore pellets per year makes us the second largest seaborne supplier in the world , reaching steel and iron producers in over 19 countries in Asia , Africa , the Americas , the Middle East and Europe .

Our operational results , health and safety performance , socioenvironmental actions and ethical business management have led us to be ranked as the best mining company in Brazil * for the third year in a row . We thank our North African clients for being part of this successful story since 1986 .

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* According to awards granted by two of Brazil ’ s leading business magazines , in the Exame and Época Negócios 360 º yearbooks .