Chile has 2 steel plants tracked in the Global Iron and Steel Tracker, with a combined crude steel capacity of about 2.0 million tonnes per year. 1 of them make steel by the integrated route, smelting ore in a blast furnace and refining it in a basic oxygen furnace, while 1 melt scrap in electric arc furnaces. The largest is CAP Acero Huachipato, at about 1.4 million tonnes per year.
Process Routes
BF–BOF Integrated 1EAF 1