ESF Elbe Stahlwerke Feralpi Riesa
operatingEAF route · Riesa, Europe, Germany
ESF Elbe Stahlwerke Feralpi Riesa 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 about 1.4 million tonnes per year. Its main products are shapes, wire rod, rod, mesh, billet, bar, coil.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1992
Emissions
2025
0.08 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
1,400
EAF
1,400
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
shapes, wire rod, rod, mesh, billet, bar, coil
Ownership
Owner ESF Elbe-Stahlwerke Feralpi GmbH
Parent Feralpi Holding SpA
Workforce 737 employees
Country Context
Germany crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Riesa
Europe
Germany
51.3128°, 13.2804°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,400 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1992
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 2 recorded