Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor
operatingBF–BOF Integrated route · Burns Harbor, North America, United States
Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor 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 5.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are sheet, hot rolled, cold rolled, coated, slab.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1964
Emissions
2025
6.79 Mt CO₂e
1.90 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Typical BF-BOF route: 1.8–2.0 t/t
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
5,001
BOF
5,001
Blast Furnace
4,960
Sinter
2,800
Coking
1,877
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Iron Units
Steel Units
Steel Products
sheet, hot rolled, cold rolled, coated, slab
Ownership
Owner Cleveland-Cliffs Inc
Parent Cleveland-Cliffs Inc [100.0%]
Workforce 4,039 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Burns Harbor
North America
United States
41.6312°, -87.1438°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 5,001 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1964
- Products
- Finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded