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Al Atoun Yanbu

cancelled

Al Atoun Steel Industries · EAF route · Yanbu, Middle East, Saudi Arabia

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Al Atoun Yanbu 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 910 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Announced 2006

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

910

EAF

910

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)cancelled
910 ttpawiki

Steel Products

billet

Ownership

Owner Al Atoun Steel Industries

Parent Al Atoun Steel Industries [100.0%]

Country Context

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

Learn the processes this plant uses

Steelmaking

Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking

Secondary Metallurgy

Ladle Furnace (LF) — Secondary Metallurgy

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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).