Egyptian Iron & Steel Company Cairo 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 3.2 million tonnes per year. Its main products are cold rolled, rebar, strip, hot rolled.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2021
2.09 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
3,200
BOF
3,200
Blast Furnace
1,400
Sinter
3,000
Iron Units
Steel Units
Inputs & Energy
Iron ore Baharia mines, Ghorabi, El Hara, Nasser
Steel Products
cold rolled, rebar, strip, hot rolled
Ownership
Owner Egyptian Iron & Steel Co
Parent Egyptian Iron & Steel Co [100.0%]
State ownership Full
Country Context
Egypt crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Helwan
Africa
Egypt
29.7745°, 31.3120°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 3,200 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1957
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled