Dragon Steel Taichung
operatingBF–BOF Integrated route · Longjing, Asia Pacific, Taiwan
Dragon Steel Taichung 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. Alongside the ore-based route, the plant runs an electric arc furnace that melts scrap and other metallics. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 6.1 million tonnes per year.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1993
Emissions
2025
7.59 Mt CO₂e
1.61 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
6,081
EAF
1,080
BOF
5,001
Blast Furnace
5,000
Sinter
6,200
Coking
2,118
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Iron Units
Steel Units
Steel Products
structural, plate, billet, coil, h-beam
Ownership
Owner Dragon Steel Corp
Parent China Steel Corp [100.0%]
Workforce 3,224 employees
State ownership Partial
Country Context
Taiwan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Longjing
Asia Pacific
Taiwan
24.2269°, 120.4939°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 6,081 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1993
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 2 recorded