Landart Building, Building A, 3rd floor
711 avenue des Landiers
73000 Chambery
Industry typology
Electrometallurgy
Product typology
silicon
Groups
FERROGLOBE
Certifications
Annual revenues
Company Headcount
980
APE
24.10Z – Steel industry
Producer and supplier of special metal products and alloys It offers silicon metal, manganese alloys, ferrosilicon, silica fume, high purity silicon powder, solar grade silicon, calcium silicon, electrodes and foundry products.
Ferroglobe has 23 electrometallurgical production centers on 4 continents and 62 furnaces.
The company is a world leader in the production of silicon metal, representing 14% of global production capacity. It is the leading producer of ferroalloys in the European Union, with a capacity of over 1 million tonnes per year..
Ferroglobe also has a strong technological capability that allows it to produce photovoltaic-grade metallic silicon, making it competitive in one of the sectors with the greatest growth potential for the coming years.
In France:
- Anglefort: silicon metal
- Dunkirk: sintered manganese, manganese and ferro-manganese alloys
- Laudun: high purity ferro silicon and silicon metal
- Les Clavaux: silicon metal by carbothermic reduction of quartz
- Montricher: silicon metal by carbothermic reduction of quartz
- Pierrefitte: remelting and processing of ferrosilicon and silicon.
Anglefort site:
- Two 33 MW furnaces, equipped with compound electrodes for silicon and independent treatment filters
- A grinding-screening line for metallurgical and chemical silicon
- A grinding and screening plant for silicon dust
- Four Microsilica densification facilities
Dunkirk site:
- A 102 MVA closed electric arc furnace for the production of FeMn
- A sintering plant with a capacity of 350 tonnes per year (equipped with a dust collector and electrostatic filters)
- A crushing and screening plant (capacity of 80 t/h)
- 2 gas scrubbers and a water treatment plant with two automatic pressure filters
Laudun site:
- Three furnaces (16, 25 and 35 MW) equipped with Söderberg electrodes for Ferrosilicon and compounds for Silicon, and independent treatment filters.
- A grinding-screening line for Ferrosilicon
- A crushing-screening line for metallurgical silicon
- A crushing-screening-pulverizing-screening line for chemical silicon
- Two Microsilica densification facilities
Clavaux site:
- Three furnaces (12, 26 and 28MW) equipped with compound electrodes for Silicon and independent treatment filters
- A granulation workshop for chemical silicon
- A grinding-screening line for metallurgical silicon
- Two Microsilica densification facilities
Montricher site
- Three furnaces (25 and 2×17 MW) equipped with compound electrodes for silicon and independent treatment filters.
- A grinding-screening line for silicon intended for the chemical market
- A crushing-screening line for silicon intended for the metallurgical market
- Two Microsilica densification facilities
Pierrefitte site:
- A 16 MW furnace equipped with Söderberg electrodes for the production of steel alloys, with a treatment filter
- A casting line
- Two induction furnaces with a unit power of 3 MW for the production of steel and silicon alloys
- A grinding-powdering-screening line for the transformation of inoculants into grains and dusts
- A mixer for the production of special inoculants
- A Microsilica densification facility
Value Chain Segment
- Production
- R & D
Tools
- Electric arc furnace