Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland
operatingBF–BOF Integrated route · Cleveland, North America, United States
Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland 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 4.1 million tonnes per year. Its main products are slab, cold rolled, hot rolled.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1913
Emissions
2025
6.36 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
4,100
BOF
4,100
Blast Furnace
2,810
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Iron Units
Steel Units
Inputs & Energy
Met coal Coke supplied from Cleveland-Cliffs Warren, Ohio facility
Steel Products
slab, cold rolled, hot rolled
Ownership
Owner Cleveland-Cliffs Inc
Parent Cleveland-Cliffs Inc [100.0%]
Workforce 2,100 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Cleveland
North America
United States
41.4640°, -81.6765°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 4,100 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1913
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded