El Hadjar Complex (Arabic: مركب الحجار) is a large
steel plant
A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. It may be an integrated steel works carrying out all steps of steelmaking from smelting iron ore to rolled product, but may also be a plant where steel semi-finish ...
, located in northern
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
, on the boundary between historical provinces of
Annaba
Annaba (), formerly known as Bon, Bona and Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to the border with Tunisia. Annaba is near the small Seybouse River and is in the Annaba Province. With a population of about 263,65 ...
and
El Taref Province
El Taref () is a province (''wilaya'') of Algeriawith a population of 481136 inhabitants in 2019 El Kala is a port town in this province. El Taref is the capital city. El Kala, a port town in this province, is home to El Kala National Park and ...
. Current name of the plant is ArcelorMittal Annaba, and its previous names were ''El Hadjar Iron and Steel Complex'', ''Sider Algeria s.p.a'', El Hadjar Iron and Steel Complex is located near the city of
El Hadjar.
The decision to build a modern, brand new plant, located in an agricultural area of
El Hadjar was taken by
Houari Boumediene Houari is a given name and surname. It may refer to:
Persons Given name
*Houari Boumédiène, also transcribed Boumediene, Boumedienne etc. (1932–1978), served as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Algeria from 19 June 1965 until 12 Decembe ...
1964. The construction was initiated in 1967, and it brought far-reaching changes to the social structure of the region. Thousands of migrants, mostly from eastern Algeria, came to work and live in newly built flats.
Construction of the plant was carried out with cooperation with Soviet experts. Some 50,000 workers took part in the project. First unit of the plant was opened in 1969.
External links
ArcelorMittal Algeria
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Iron and steel mills in Algeria
ArcelorMittal
Manufacturing companies established in 1969
1969 establishments in Algeria
Algeria–Soviet Union relations
Soviet foreign aid