Hansco Hwanyoung Steel Dangjin 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 800 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, rebar.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1993
Emissions
2025
0.055 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
800
EAF
800
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet, rebar
Ownership
Owner Hwanyoung Steel Industries Co Ltd
Parent KISCO Corp
Country Context
South Korea crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Dangjin
Asia Pacific
South Korea
36.9565°, 126.6170°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 800 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1993
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled