Gerdau Petersburg Steel Mill 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 821 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are piling, beam, channel.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1998
Emissions
2025
0.045 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
821
EAF
821
Production
Crude steel production: 617 ttpa (2024)
Steel Units
Steel Products
piling, beam, channel
Ownership
Owner Gerdau Ameristeel Corp
Parent Gerdau SA [98.2%]
Workforce 717 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Petersburg
North America
United States
37.1812°, -77.4495°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 821 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1998
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled