Gerdau Guaíra Araucária 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 420 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet.
Process Route
EAF
Timeline
Operating since 1982
Emissions
2025
0.23 Mt CO₂e
0.73 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
420
EAF
420
Production
Crude steel production: 300 ttpa (2022)
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet
Ownership
Owner Gerdau Acos Longos SA
Parent Gerdau SA [99.8%]
Workforce 300 employees
Country Context
Brazil crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Araucária
Central & South America
Brazil
-25.5640°, -49.4217°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 420 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1982
- Products
- Semi-finished