Explanatory Note
Title: Steel and ferroalloy manufacturing
It comprises the production of: pig iron (includes spiegel pig iron); crude steel and semi-finished products
(includes products obtained by continuous casting); ferroalloys; hot and cold rolling of
flat products; hot rolling of long products (rolled wire, concrete rod, bars,
heavy profiles, rails, etc.); production of sheet piles; production of rails and other
material for railway tracks; iron shot and powder; chemically pure iron; ingot remelting
of scrap, iron and steel in ingots; and coating of flat products.
Includes activities associated with the operation of blast furnaces, iron and steel converters and
rolling mills; blast furnace gas production and manufacturing of flat iron and steel products
coated or uncoated, in rolls or straight lengths exceeding 600 mm wide,
by cold re-rolling of hot-rolled flat products or iron and steel bars.
Does not include:
Production of coke from coal (19100);
Cold drawing of bars (24310);
Production of cold-rolled flat products with a width of less than 600mm (24320);
Casting of ferrous and non-ferrous metals (245);
Coating outside the steel sector (25510);