In Mardyck, ArcelorMittal highlights its investments, with out convincing the CGT | EUROtoday

Do not confuse electrical steels and steels produced with electrical energy. The unit which ought to begin working by the tip of the 12 months at ArcelorMittal Mardyck (North), close to Dunkirk, has nothing to do with the postponed tasks to construct electrical furnaces to switch the very polluting coal-fired blast furnaces on the Dunkirk steelworks.

Six days after the National Assembly adopted at first studying a invoice on the nationalization of the French websites of the metal large, a go to was organized this Tuesday, December 2, to that of Mardyck. Three of the 5 deliberate strains of a brand new manufacturing line for very skinny rolled steels for the manufacture of electrical motors ought to begin producing there by the tip of the 12 months. Steels known as “electrical steels”.

Accused of procrastinating on its plan to decarbonize the Dunkirk steelworks and of demanding ever extra public support, regardless of the plan for European metal introduced in October 2025, ArcelorMittal highlights “the group’s largest investment in Europe for ten years: 500 million euros”. A venture certified as “strategic” which can make it potential to finish manufacturing in Saint-Chély-d’Apcher (Lozère) and attain 295,000 tonnes per 12 months. “ All ArcelorMittal electrical steels in Europe will be produced in France,” specifies the group.

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