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British Steel Teesside

cancelled

EAF route · Lackenby, Europe, United Kingdom

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British Steel Teesside 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 900 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Announced2021
Retired2025

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

900

EAF

900

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)cancelled
900 ttpa100 twiki

Steel Products

billet

Ownership

Owner British Steel Ltd

Parent Jingye Steel (Uk) Holding Ltd

Country Context

United Kingdom crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Other Jingye Steel (Uk) Holding Ltd plants

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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).