Balakovo 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 1.3 million tonnes per year. Its main products are rebar, rod, billet, channel, angle, rail, square.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2025
0.16 Mt CO₂e
0.19 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
1,250
EAF
1,250
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
rebar, rod, billet, channel, angle, rail, square
Ownership
Owner MZ Balakovo JSC
Parent Novostal-M LLC
Workforce 4,100 employees
Country Context
Russia crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Bykov Otrog
Eurasia
Russia
51.9360°, 47.8159°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,250 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2013
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded