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Message from the Chairman

 

South Africans will come to reflect on 2019 as an exceptionally challenging year economically.

Mpho Makwana
Chairman
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Message from the Chief Executive Officer

 

South Africans will come to reflect on 2019 as an exceptionally challenging year economically.

Wim de Klerk
Chief executive officer
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Message from the Chief Financial Officer

 

South Africans will come to reflect on 2019 as an exceptionally challenging year economically.

Desmond Maharaj
Chief financial officer

Who we are

ArcelorMittal South Africa is sub-Saharan Africa’s largest steel producer with an annual production capacity (in 2019) of 6.5 million tonnes of liquid steel. In 2019 we produced 4.4 million tonnes of finished primary steel products – almost 700 000 tonnes lower than in the previous year.

Flat steel products

Produced at Vanderbijlpark and Saldanha Works. Products include slabs and heavy plates as well as hot rolled coil, cold rolled and coated products. Major consumers are the construction, piping, packaging and automotive industries.

EBITA contribution (R million)

Long steel products

Produced at Newcastle and Vereeniging Works. Products include bars, billets, blooms, hot-finished and cold-drawn seamless tubes, window and fencing profiles, light, medium and heavy sections, rod and forged products. Long steel products are used primarily in the construction industry.

EBITA contribution (R million)

Coke and Chemicals

From batteries in Vanderbijlpark, Newcastle and Pretoria Works, Coke and Chemicals operations produces metallurgical coke for our furnaces in Vanderbijlpark and Newcastle Works, and commercial coke for sale to, especially, the ferro-alloy industry. The business also processes and beneficiates metallurgical and steel byproducts, including coal tar. These are sold as raw materials for a wide variety of uses.

EBITA contribution (R million)


Strategic objectives