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Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor steel plant

operating

East Chicago, North America, United States

ISO 14001
GEM wiki

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating since 1901

Emissions

2025

9.07 Mt CO₂e

1.80 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

6,800

BOF

6,800

Blast Furnace

4,200

Sinter

2,300

Production

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

Iron Units

BF
BF 3mothballed
1,600 ttpa1586 m³ · relined 1994wiki
BF
BF 4mothballed
2,100 ttpa2044 m³ · relined 2003wiki
BF
BF 7operating
4,200 ttpa4163 m³ · relined 2021wiki

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)mothballed
454 ttpa105 twiki
BOF
unknown BOF (1)operating
1,800 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (2)operating
1,800 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (3)operating
1,600 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (4)operating
1,600 ttpawiki

Steel Products

pipe

Ownership

Owner Cleveland-Cliffs Inc

Parent Cleveland-Cliffs Inc [100.0%]

Workforce 3,431 employees

Country Context

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

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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.