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NLMK Lipetsk steel plant

operating

Lipetsk, Eurasia, Russia

ISO 14001ISO 50001
GEM wiki

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating since 1934

Emissions

2025

18.6 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

14,400

BOF

14,400

Blast Furnace

14,200

Sinter

15,000

Coking

2,745

Production

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

Iron Units

BF
BF 3operating
1,600 ttpa2000 m³ · relined 2009Saint-Gobain (parts)wiki
BF
BF 4operating
2,100 ttpa2000 m³ · relined 2021wiki
BF
BF 5operating
2,900 ttpa3200 m³ · relined 2015wiki
BF
BF 6operating
3,400 ttpa3200 m³ · relined 2019Paul Wurth; Saint-Gobain (parts)wiki
BF
BF 7operating
4,200 ttpa4200 m³ · relined 2019Manufacturer & model - local Russian. Russian and foreign engineering companies were involved in the technical developments/design; Saint-Gobain (parts)wiki

Steel Units

BOF
BOF 1.1operating
1,500 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 1.2operating
1,500 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 1.3operating
1,500 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 2.1operating
3,300 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 2.2operating
3,300 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 2.3operating
3,300 ttpawiki

Inputs & Energy

Power 150 MW recovery cogeneration plant designed to process blast furnace gas from BF #7.

Iron ore NLMK Stoilensky Mine (P100000128605)

Steel Products

galvanized, rebar, channel, coated, pipe, flat, hot rolled, slab, beam

Ownership

Owner Novolipetsk Steel PJSC

Parent Novolipetsk Steel PJSC [100.0%]

Workforce 27,000 employees

Country Context

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

Explore

Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.