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Resumption of production in the area damaged by the outage
PMA Sider El Hadjar
After a six-week shutdown due to a breakdown in the dust extraction system of the PMA unit (preparation of materials and agglomerates), which occurred on April 14, production activity in the area damaged by the breakdown at the complex steelworks of El Hadjar (Annaba) resumed the day before yesterday, Sunday. This was made known by the general director of the Sider group, Lamine Sedrati in a statement to the APS.
The dust extraction system was completely renovated as part of a repair and maintenance operation carried out in collaboration with a technical team specializing in work at height and the National Carpentry and Boilermaking Company (ENCC), subsidiary of the Imetal group, said Mr. Sedrati. The period of renovation of the dust extraction system which required the suspension of the “stoppage of production activity in the area damaged by the breakdown, including the Blast Furnace and the PMA unit, was put to rest benefit by the management of the complex to carry out periodic maintenance work on industrial equipment in the various units of the factory, in order to eliminate the delay caused by this failure and allow the complex to achieve its production objectives. also specified the same manager.
He added that these measures are part of an “approach adopted by the Sider complex to meet the challenge of profitability by maintaining industrial equipment and mobilizing all means to improve the management of the economic activity of the complex”.
The Sider complex in El Hadjar “works to participate in the country’s development dynamic by respecting contractual deadlines with its various clients and by supplying the market with quality products such as seamless tubes for the transport of hydrocarbons and products in flat iron for the construction of desalination stations,” it was emphasized.
Production forecasts for the El Hadjar steel complex, for the 2024 financial year, have been set at 600,000 tonnes of different steel products, namely flat and long ferrous products, concrete bars, seamless tubes and other steel products. , previously revealed the Minister of Industry and Pharmaceutical Production, recalling that the exports of the complex, which employs 5,605 workers, reached, in 2023, a value of 22 million dollars.
Manuel Z.