Voestalpine Stahl Linz steel plant

operating

Linz, Europe, Austria

ResponsibleSteel

GEM wiki

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating since 1940

Emissions

2025

9.36 Mt CO₂e

1.90 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Typical BF-BOF route: 1.8–2.0 t/t

Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

4,000

BOF

4,000

Blast Furnace

3,300

Production

Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.

Iron Units

BF 5operating pre-retirement

850 ttparelined 2023Saint-Gobain (parts)wiki

BF 6operating pre-retirement

850 ttpa1200 m³ · relined 2024Saint-Gobain (parts)wiki

BF Aoperating

3,300 ttparelined 2018Saint-Gobain (parts)wiki

DRI

Hy4Smelt Demonstration DRIconstruction

26 ttpahydrogen · in-usePrimetalswiki

Steel Units

EAF

unknown EAF (1)construction

1,600 ttpa180 tPrimetalswiki

BOF

unknown BOF (1)operating

2,000 ttpawiki

BOF

unknown BOF (2)operating pre-retirement

2,000 ttpawiki

BOF

unknown BOF (3)operating

2,000 ttpawiki

Steel Products

galvanized, strip, coated

Ownership

Owner Voestalpine Stahl GmbH

Parent Voestalpine AG [100.0%]

Workforce 9,150 employees

Country Context

Austria crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Location

Linz

Europe

Austria

48.2740°, 14.3343°