{"id":3226,"date":"2025-03-11T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brazil.vallourec.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3226"},"modified":"2025-03-11T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:31:28","slug":"vallourec-prepared-to-meet-market-demands-with-pellet-production-of-over-1-2-mm-tons-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/brazil.vallourec.com\/en\/news\/vallourec-prepared-to-meet-market-demands-with-pellet-production-of-over-1-2-mm-tons-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Vallourec prepared to meet market demands with pellet production of over 1.2 M tons\/year"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3226\" class=\"elementor elementor-3226\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8c476d7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8c476d7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-33aa32a\" data-id=\"33aa32a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3af3f6e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3af3f6e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>As part of its integrated production chain, the company is the only <\/strong><strong>steelmaker in Brazil to have a Pelletizing plant<\/strong><\/p><p><br \/>World reference in the production of premium seamless steel tubes and intelligent tubular solutions, Vallourec\u2019s Pelletizing plant expects to produce over 1.2 million tons of pellets per year. The volume is enough to fuel its own blast furnace and supply the steel market. The company is the only steelmaker in Brazil to have a pelletizing process as part of its industrial complex, located in the Jeceaba unit, South-Central region of the state of Minas Gerais.<\/p><p><br \/>With operations in Brazil for over 70 years, Vallourec South America is internationally renowned for its integrated and self-sustaining processes. The Mining unit supplies the iron ore and the Forestry unit, a pioneer in planting and managing renewable eucalyptus forests, the biomass charcoal for the production of high-quality steel. The Pelletizing plant is also part of this complete production chain. It is where the pellet feed extracted from the Mining unit goes to be transformed into pellets.<br \/><br \/>Andr\u00e9 Lacerda, Senior Vice President for Vallourec South America, states that \u201cwith the production capacity of our Pelletizing plant &#8211; which is a strategic asset for the company &#8211; we are prepared to meet the steel market\u2019s demands for pellets. This is the outcome of a robust plan involving a series of investments and improvements\u201d.<br \/><br \/>As a result, the Vallourec Pelletizing plant is ISO 50001, ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 certified. It is also the only one in the world to use biomass charcoal as the main fuel in the pellet-burning process, with lower greenhouse gas emissions.<br \/><br \/>Another standout quality is the speed with which the pellets can be dispatched, thanks to a railroad network that strategically passes through the Jeceaba unit and connects it to Brazil\u2019s most important ports.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-87f9b64 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"87f9b64\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2de99b6 elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"2de99b6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;slides_to_show&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;both&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"image-carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel-wrapper swiper\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\" aria-label=\"Image Carousel\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper\" aria-live=\"off\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"1 of 3\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vallourec.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/Vallourec_Pelotizacao_034.jpg\" alt=\"Vallourec_Pelotizacao_034\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"2 of 3\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vallourec.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/Vallourec_Pelotizacao_001.jpg\" alt=\"default\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"3 of 3\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vallourec.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/Vallourec_Pelotizacao.jpg\" alt=\"Vallourec_Pelotizacao\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-prev\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-next\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3230,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-transition-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<title>Vallourec prepared to meet market demands with pellet production of over 1.2 M tons\/year - 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