Gerdau Cosigua Santa Cruz
operatingEAF route · Santa Cruz, Central & South America, Brazil
Gerdau Cosigua Santa Cruz 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 936 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are wire rod, rebar, bar.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1971
Emissions
2025
0.23 Mt CO₂e
0.33 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
936
EAF
936
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
wire rod, rebar, bar
Ownership
Owner Gerdau Acos Longos SA
Parent Gerdau SA [99.8%]
Workforce 1,500 employees
Country Context
Brazil crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
Learn the processes this plant uses
Nearby Plants
Other Gerdau SA plants
Explore
Location
Santa Cruz
Central & South America
Brazil
-22.9024°, -43.7493°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 936 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1971
- Products
- Finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded