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Alter Steel Pinkenba

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Equest Steel Pty Ltd · EAF route · Pinkenba, Asia Pacific, Australia

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Alter Steel Pinkenba 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 500 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are bar, wire rod, hot rolled mesh, spooled coil, bar.

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Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Announced2025
Construction2026
Operating2027

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

500

EAF

500

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)announced
500 ttpaDanieliwiki

Steel Products

bar, wire rod, hot rolled mesh, spooled coil, bar

Ownership

Owner Equest Steel Pty Ltd

Parent Westview Group

Workforce 216 employees

Country Context

Australia 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

Casting

Continuous Casting

Rolling

Hot Rolling

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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).