IRON MAKING
The iron making department consists of a raw material handling area, sinter plant and two blast furnaces. Raw materials such as iron ore, sinter coke and dolomite are charged into the blast furnaces where it is converted to liquid iron.
Vanderbijlpark works has two blast furnaces in operation with a combined capacity of 240 000 tonnes tones of liquid iron monthly.
DIRECT REDUCTION
The direct reduction plant is coal bases and has six rotary kilns currently capable of producing 900 000t f direct reduction iron, or DRI. The main consumer of product is the Electric Arc Furnaces.