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Aperam Stainless Belgium Châtelet

operating

EAF route · Châtelet, Europe, Belgium

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Aperam Stainless Belgium Châtelet 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 1.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are slab, cold rolled.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 1976

Emissions

2025

0.17 Mt CO₂e

0.21 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

1,000

EAF

1,000

Steel Units

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Inputs & Energy

Power Electricity + Natural Gas + Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Steel Products

slab, cold rolled

Ownership

Owner Aperam Stainless Belgium NV

Parent Aperam SA [100.0%]

Workforce 1,998 employees

Learn the processes this plant uses

Steelmaking

Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking

Secondary Metallurgy

Ladle Furnace (LF) — Secondary Metallurgy

Casting

Continuous Casting

Rolling

Cold Rolling

Rolling

Hot Rolling

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