Acerinox Columbus Stainless is a scrap-based steel plant: an electric arc furnace melts recycled steel scrap into new crude steel. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of 850 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are sheet, plate, coil, slab.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1966
Emissions
2025
0.083 Mt CO₂e
0.14 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Typical EAF route: 0.5–0.7 t/t
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
850
EAF
850
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
sheet, plate, coil, slab
Ownership
Owner Columbus Stainless (Pty) Ltd
Parent Acerinox SA [76.0%]; Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd [24.0%]
Workforce 1,319 employees
State ownership Partial
Country Context
South Africa crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Middelburg
Africa
South Africa
-25.7963°, 29.4980°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 850 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1966
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled