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Gerdau Divinópolis

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BF–BOF Integrated route · Divinópolis, Central & South America, Brazil

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Gerdau Divinópolis 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 600 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are rebar, bar.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating since 1953

Emissions

2025

0.83 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

600

BOF

600

Blast Furnace

430

Production

Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.

Iron Units

BF
BF 1operating
112 ttpa110 m³ · relined 2022wiki
BF
BF 2operating
190 ttpa192 m³ · relined 2022wiki
BF
BF 3operating
128 ttpa125 m³ · relined 2022wiki

Steel Units

BOF
unknown BOF (1)operating
600 ttpawiki

Steel Products

rebar, bar

Ownership

Owner Gerdau Acos Longos SA

Parent Gerdau SA [99.8%]

Workforce 920 employees

Country Context

Brazil crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.