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Gerdau São Paulo Araçariguama

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EAF route · Araçariguama, Central & South America, Brazil

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Gerdau São Paulo Araçariguama 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 950 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, rebar.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 2006

Emissions

2025

0.2 Mt CO₂e

0.27 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

950

EAF

950

Production

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

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating
950 ttpa108 twiki

Steel Products

billet, rebar

Ownership

Owner Gerdau Acos Longos SA

Parent Gerdau SA [99.8%]

Workforce 370 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.