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BlueScope New Zealand Steel Glenbrook

operating

DRI–EAF route · Glenbrook, Asia Pacific, New Zealand

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BlueScope New Zealand Steel Glenbrook produces direct reduced iron by direct reduction — solid metallic iron made by reducing ore below its melting point — a feedstock for electric steelmaking. Its main products are slab, cold rolled, hot rolled.

Process Route

DRI

Timeline

Operating since 1969

Emissions

2025

0.8 Mt CO₂e

1.45 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology

Capacity (ttpa)

DRI

326

Iron Units

DRI
unknown DRI (1)operating
163 ttpawiki
DRI
unknown DRI (2)operating
163 ttpawiki
DRI
unknown DRI (3)operating pre-retirement
163 ttpawiki
DRI
unknown DRI (4)operating pre-retirement
163 ttpawiki

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)construction
650 ttpaDanieli; March Construction; Beca Engineerswiki
BOF
unknown BOF (1)operating pre-retirement
670 ttpawiki

Inputs & Energy

Power Glenbrook Power Station (L100000407928)

Iron ore Waikato North Head Mine (P100000129355)

Steel Products

slab, cold rolled, hot rolled

Ownership

Owner New Zealand Steel Ltd

Parent BlueScope Steel Ltd [100.0%]

Workforce 1,400 employees

Learn the processes this plant uses

Ironmaking

Direct Reduction (DRI / HBI)

Casting

Continuous Casting

Rolling

Cold Rolling

Rolling

Hot Rolling

Other BlueScope Steel Ltd plants

BlueScope Port Kembla

Australia · 3,200 ttpa

BlueScope North Star

United States · 3,034 ttpa

BlueScope Steel EAF

United States · 500 ttpa

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