Sider Perú (Steel Company of Perú), is the leading steel company all around Perú. Since 1956 is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of high quality steel products. The steel complex is located in northern of Chimbote city and installed in a large area of approximately 600 ha. It has a production capacity exceeding 500 thousand tons of finished steel products.
It counts for it with a blast furnace, electric furnaces with theirs Sponge Iron Plant. Has facilities for reduction, steelmaking, rolling flat products, rolled non-flat products, flat, etc. For the supply of its main raw materials, has a dock to receive vessels of up to 50 tons and also receives mining extractions coming from the highland of Perú. Products required by mainly the construction sector, mining and industry both local and overseas market. The company exhibits being the first and largest steel company in Perú offering the best steel.
However, it also produces toxic chemical wastes harmful to health as a result of its production process. By using a drainage system it discharges directly into the sea the waste materials which contain harmful chemicals for human beings and marine wildlife. On the other hand, residents can see the emission of the smoke from the plant each time that is producing. Sometimes the smoke is red and sometimes is white carrying in itself the plant wastes and polluting the sky of Chimbote.
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