Siderúrgica del Turbio S.A. (Sidetur) is a subsidiary of Siderúrgica de Venezuela S.A. (Sivensa

Sivensa

Sivensa the biggest wholly private Venezuelan steel corporation. Founded in 1948, it has grown to be, after Sidor, Venezuela's largest steel and associated products producer. In 1998, Sivensa suffered a substantial crisis - mainly due to the Asian Crisis - which reduced the size of the company and...

), the biggest - wholly private - Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

n steel corporation. Their main products are rebars, bars, beams, angles and flats. Sidetur develops their exporting activity in more than 25 countries in the markets of America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Their seven operating plants are located in the states of Bolívar, Carabobo, Miranda, Lara and the Capital District. Additionally, Sidetur has 14 ferrous material collection centers located in various cities.

Founded in 1948 in Antímano

Antímano

Antímano is a district of Caracas, Venezuela. It is part of Libertador municipality. According to a 2007 estimate of the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, it had a population of 150,971 people in 2007....

, Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

, Sidetur now has six plants, all in Venezuela.

In 1998, Sivensa suffered a strong crisis - mainly due to the Asian Crisis - which reduced the size of the company and generated a big debt. Thanks to high steel prices, the situation of the company is improving with the years. Nowadays, the company has a capacity of annual production of 835,000 tons of steelmaking, 615,000 tons of rolling and 67,000 of electric welding.

Plants

All six of Sidetur's plants are located in Venezuela. Only two of them, Planta Barquisimeto and Planta Casima, are designed to melt steel into billets.

Plant Name	Year Built	Location	Products
			Rebars	Bars	Beams Beam (structure) A beam is a horizontal structural element that is capable of withstanding load primarily by resisting bending. The bending force induced into the material of the beam as a result of the external loads, own weight, span and external reactions to these loads is called a bending moment.- Overview...	Angle Angle In geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle.Angles are usually presumed to be in a Euclidean plane with the circle taken for standard with regard to direction. In fact, an angle is frequently viewed as a measure of an circular arc... s	Flats Sheet metal Sheet metal is simply metal formed into thin and flat pieces. It is one of the fundamental forms used in metalworking, and can be cut and bent into a variety of different shapes. Countless everyday objects are constructed of the material...	Billets Billet (manufacturing) Semi-finished casting products are intermediate castings produced in a foundry that need further processing before being a finished good. There are four types: ingots, billets, blooms, and slabs.-Ingot:...	Special Steels	Electric Welding Welding Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material that cools to become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes...
Planta Casima	1989	Puerto Ordaz, Bolívar State Puerto Ordaz Puerto Ordaz is a planned city which, together with the older settlement of San Felix, forms Ciudad Guayana in Bolívar State, eastern Venezuela. Puerto Ordaz is located at the confluence of the Caroní and Orinoco Rivers and is the site of the Llovizna Falls. There are bridges across the Caroni and...	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Planta Antimano	1950	Caracas, Distrito Capital Caracas Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Planta Guarenas	1986	Guarenas, Miranda State Guarenas Guarenas is a city in Miranda, Venezuela. It was established in 1621 as Nuestra Señora de Copacabana de los Guarenas. On February 27, 1989, a morning protest in this city over the recent nationwide hike in bus fares, spread to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, which resulted in several days of...	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Planta Valencia	1968	Valencia, Carabobo State	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Planta Lara	2004	Barquisimeto, Lara State Barquisimeto Barquisimeto is the capital city of the State of Lara located in west central Venezuela, halfway between Caracas and Maracaibo on the Turbio River.-Overview:...	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Planta Barquisimeto	1972	Barquisimeto, Lara State Barquisimeto Barquisimeto is the capital city of the State of Lara located in west central Venezuela, halfway between Caracas and Maracaibo on the Turbio River.-Overview:...	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No

Sidetur ferrous material collection centers are located nationwide in Venezuela. The company serves the following cities and their neighboring areas:

• Caracas
• Guarenas
• Santa Lucía
• Valencia
• Cagua
• Barquisimeto
• Maracaibo
• Ciudad Ojeda
• El Vigía
• Barcelona
• Maturín
• El Tigre
• Puerto Ordaz
• Porlamar

Production

The following table shows the production capacities of the different plants that Sidetur owns in metric tons per year.

Process	Plant							Total
	Casima	Antímano	Guarenas	Valencia	Lara	Barquisimeto	Collection Centers
Steelmaking Steelmaking Steelmaking is the second step in producing steel from iron ore. In this stage, impurities such as sulfur, phosphorus, and excess carbon are removed from the raw iron, and alloying elements such as manganese, nickel, chromium and vanadium are added to produce the exact steel required.-Older...	460,000	-	-	-	-	375,000	-	835,000 t/year
Rolling Rolling Rolling is a combination of rotation and translation of that object with respect to a surface , such that the two are in contact with each other without sliding. This is achieved by a rotational speed at the cylinder or circle of contact which is equal to the translational speed...	-	340,000	75,000	-	60,000	140,000	-	615,000 t/year
Electric Welding Welding Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material that cools to become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes...	-	-	-	67,000	-	-	-	67,000 t/year
Ferrous Material Collection	-	-	-	-	-	-	600,000	600,000 t/year

See also

• List of Companies of Venezuela
• Siderúrgica de Venezuela S.A. (Sivensa)
  Sivensa
  Sivensa the biggest wholly private Venezuelan steel corporation. Founded in 1948, it has grown to be, after Sidor, Venezuela's largest steel and associated products producer. In 1998, Sivensa suffered a substantial crisis - mainly due to the Asian Crisis - which reduced the size of the company and...
  
  
• Steel
  Steel
  Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...