Cleveland-Cliffs Dearborn
mothballedBF–BOF Integrated route · Dearborn, North America, United States
Cleveland-Cliffs Dearborn 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 3.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are slab.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2025
4.10 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
3,000
BOF
3,000
Blast Furnace
2,500
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Iron Units
Steel Units
Steel Products
slab
Ownership
Owner Cleveland-Cliffs Inc
Parent Cleveland-Cliffs Inc [100.0%]
Workforce 581 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Dearborn
North America
United States
42.3082°, -83.1614°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 3,000 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1920
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded