Egyptian Steel Ain Sokhna 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 830 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, rebar.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2025
0.1 Mt CO₂e
0.26 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
830
EAF
830
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet, rebar
Ownership
Owner Egyptian Steel Group
Parent Al Ezz Dekheila Steel Company Alexandria SAE [18.0%]; National Service Project Organization
Workforce 700 employees
State ownership Partial
Country Context
Egypt crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Nearby Plants
Other Al Ezz Dekheila Steel Company Alexandria SAE; National Service Project Organization plants
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Location
Attaka
Africa
Egypt
29.6477°, 32.2789°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 830 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2018
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled