CMC Tennessee
operatingCommercial Metals Co · EAF route · Knoxville, North America, United States
GEM wikiCMC Tennessee 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 544 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are rebar.
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Operate a continuous caster
A free interactive model of the process — run a four-ladle sequence and see what breaks.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 2000
Emissions
2025
0.03 Mt CO₂e
0.08 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Typical EAF route: 0.5–0.7 t/t
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
544
EAF
544
Steel Units
Steel Products
rebar
Ownership
Owner Commercial Metals Co
Parent Commercial Metals Co [100.0%]
Workforce 933 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Knoxville
North America
United States
35.9781°, -83.9566°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 544 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2000
- Products
- Finished rolled