Over the course of seventy years, the steel industry in Egypt witnessed many

stages of technological development and modernization in the field of the

production of liquid steel and hot rolled. In the next few lines, we will shed
light on this technological development in this field.
1947 is the beginning of the actual emergence of the steel industry in Egypt,
represented in the establishment of the first factory to produce the liquid steel
necessary to produce reinforcing steel through the process of recycling and
smelting directly using the smelting furnaces using electric arc technology with
limited production capacity.
Starting in 1957, the Egyptian steel industry was added to a new path to obtain
liquid steel by relying on iron ore, either to produce pig iron or to obtain
molten iron by using high furnace units, while relying on the end of the track
on the oxygen converters to obtain the liquid steel.
In 1986, with a variety of sources of energy to include in addition to coal and
electricity natural gas, which added to the Egyptian steel industry the
possibility of using the technology of the production of liquid steel through a
process depends on the iron concentrates in the reduction units allocated for
that in addition to the use of electric arc furnaces at the end of the path to get
On liquid steel.
Thus, the technological system of the Egyptian steel sector has been
completed to include all three main tracks used in the production of liquid
steel at that time.
By the beginning of 2005, many countries had set out to set standards to
reduce the emissions from iron and steel because they had an impact on
climate change. Carbon dioxide emissions from iron and steel by conventional
methods reached 27% compared to other industries. In 2015 and the signing of
more than 150 countries to the Paris Convention was set in 2025 or 2030 to
achieve the objectives of the Convention, which seeks to obtain the most
appropriate ways to the steel industry.
By the middle of 2016, the steel industry in Egypt added the latest types of
clean liquid technology production, which is the lowest emission and the least
consumption and energy saving with the latest practical applications in the
field of hot rolling, which reaches zero emissions.
It is also being prepared to introduce the use of electrical induction technology
as a non-polluting alternative that can be used in heating and flushing of liquid
steel in metallurgical treatment units, which helps to reduce emissions and
helps to meet the expected shortage in graphite electrodes which represent
the main element in this process. Reduced electricity
It has also been conceived through research and development departments
that help increase the production capacity of those technologies by developing
continuous casting machines to reach 1 million tons of liquid steel by 2019.
In addition, an electric power generation based on the exhaust of the electric
arc furnace gases is prepared to add to the unit.
To complete this image of the Egyptian steel industry and what should be in
the future in terms of energy saving and reducing emissions and these
components start to set up independent projects without the need for state
resources