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Site visit overview - Ferroglobe Angelfort

CRU are offering site visits to the Ferroglobe Angelfort factory, which will take place on Tuesday 23 September.

Please note, due to the popularity of the plant tours, we will be limiting attendance to one person per company until 18 July.

Each company can request one place on the site visit, as well as nominating a second person at the point of registering. 

You can now sign up to the site visit - register today

Anglefort factory was built in 1964 by Nobel Bozel. At its origins Ferrosilicon alloys where produce, but after 1977 it turned to produce Silicon Metal through carbothermal reduction.

  • Plant established in 1964 – 61 years
  • Production: Silicon metal and silica fume
  • Furnaces started in 1964 and 1972 (initially producing FeSi and CaSi at 22 MW).
  • Fully dedicated to SiMe production since 1986
  • Continuous power increases: currently operating at 33 MW and 29 MW, with a production capacity of approximately 40,000 tons per year.
  • Workforce: 148 employees
  • Electricity consumption: over 500 GWh/year
  • Raw materials: 250,000 tons per year of quartz, carbon, wood, limestone, and electrodes&bull
  • 400 km from Fos-sur-Mer, with railway connection

Site visit schedule

Group A Time Group B Time
Leave Hotel 8:00 Arrival Village 10:30
Arrival Village 10:00 Lunch 12:30
Coffee & PPE 10:30 PPE 13:35
Transfer to Plant + Safety Induction 10:45 Transfer to Plant + Safety Induction 13:40
Site Tour 10:50 Site Tour 14:40
Transfer to Village 11:50 Transfer to Village 14:45
Lunch 12:30 Coffee / Refreshment 15:00
Departure 13:30 Departure 15:30
Hotel Arrival 17:30
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