Grupo Simec San Luis steel plants
operatingAceros Especiales Simec Tlaxcala SA de CV · EAF route · San Luis Potosí, North America, Mexico
Grupo Simec San Luis steel plants 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 816 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are wire rod, rebar, mesh, bar.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1993
Emissions
2025
0.026 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
816
EAF
816
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
wire rod, rebar, mesh, bar
Ownership
Owner Aceros Especiales Simec Tlaxcala SA de CV
Parent Grupo Simec SAB de CV [100.0%]
Workforce 598 employees
Country Context
Mexico crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
San Luis Potosí
North America
Mexico
22.1033°, -100.9192°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 816 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1993
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded