China Steel Xiaogang makes steel by the integrated route: iron ore is smelted into liquid hot metal in a blast furnace, then refined into crude steel in a basic oxygen furnace. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 10.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are plate, bars, wire rod, hot rolled coil, cold rolled, coil.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1971
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
10,000
BOF
10,000
Blast Furnace
8,920
Production
Crude steel production: 8,803 ttpa (2022)
Iron Units
Steel Units
Steel Products
plate, bars, wire rod, hot rolled coil, cold rolled, coil
Ownership
Owner China Steel Corp
Parent China Steel Corp [100.0%]
Workforce 17,434 employees
State ownership Partial
Country Context
Taiwan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Kaohsiung
Asia Pacific
Taiwan
22.5554°, 120.3493°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 10,000 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1971