Acerinox Europa Los Barrios
operatingEAF route · Los Barrios, Europe, Spain
Acerinox Europa Los Barrios 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 about 1.2 million tonnes per year. Its main products are sheet, plate, cold rolled, coil, billet, hot rolled, slab.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1970
Emissions
2025
0.12 Mt CO₂e
0.17 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
1,200
EAF
1,200
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
sheet, plate, cold rolled, coil, billet, hot rolled, slab
Ownership
Owner Acerinox Europa SAU
Parent Acerinox SA [100.0%]
Workforce 1,746 employees
Country Context
Spain crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Los Barrios
Europe
Spain
36.1817°, -5.4266°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,200 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1970
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 2 recorded