San Juan de Nieva
operating- Capacity
- 510 kt/yr2020 output record
- Output 2024
- 540 kt cynku
- Status
- operating
Products: Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA) · Zinc galvanizing alloys (ZnAl, ZnNi, ZnAlMg)
The company reports a record commercial zinc output of 510 kt in 2020 and over 675 kt of sulphuric acid; employment of over 1,000 people and over 400 contractors; the San Juan plant has operated for over 60 years. In regional materials it is described as the world's largest electrolytic zinc smelter. Roast-leach-electrowin process; Albion installation.
Verified at source:
- B Asturiana de Zinc S.A.U. (Glencore), Public Responsible Supply Chain Due Diligence Report 2024
- B Invest in Asturias, profile of the Asturiana de Zinc plant
- B Glencore Technology, instalacja Albion Process – San Juan de Nieva
- B Asturiana de Zinc – company website
- B Asturiana de Zinc, S.A.U. – Public Responsible Supply Chain Due Diligence Report (year 2024) s. 3
- B Asturiana de Zinc, S.A.U. – Public Responsible Supply Chain Due Diligence Report (year 2025) s. 3
- B IGME – Panorama Minero 2022, rozdz. „Cinc 2021” p. 185 (item 4.1.3) – capacity “más de 550,000 t”, Waelz approx. 10%
- A Eurostat PRODCOM DS-059358 – sold production, kody 24431230 i 24431250 ES 24431230 2023; 24431250 2019–2024; IT 24431230 2019–2024; BG 24431230/24431250 – :C; dataset DS-059358, indicators PRODQNT/PQNTFLAG/PQNTBASE/OWNPRODQNT; unit KG converted to t
- B Glencore – Full Year 2024 Production Report s. 5–6 (agregat: Portovesme, Asturiana, Nordenham, Northfleet, CEZ); s. 6; s. 5–6, 13
- C BGS – World Mineral Production 2020–24, table “Production of slab zinc” (and the 2019–23 edition for 2019) s. 78 – Netherlands; s. 78 – France; s. 78 – Spain; s. 78 – Germany; s. 78 – Italy; s. 78 – Bulgaria; s. 78 (wyd. 2020–24) i odpowiednia tabela wyd. 2019–23
- B EEA, Industrial Reporting under the IED and E-PRTR, wersja 16 (2007–2024): pliki „F6_1_IED_Installations.csv”, „F1_4_Air_Releases_Facilities.csv”, „F3_2_Transfers_Facilities.csv”, „F4_2_WasteTransfers_Facilities.csv” reporting year 2024; IED installations 2.5(a), 2.5(b), 2.3(c), 4.2(e), 5.1; E-PRTR facilities 2(e), 3(a), 5(a)
- B GLEIF – Global LEI Index, API lei-records i fuzzycompletions