Hyundai Steel Incheon
operatingEAF route · Incheon, Asia Pacific, South Korea
Hyundai Steel Incheon 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 about 4.7 million tonnes per year. Its main products are h-sections, rebar.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1953
Emissions
2025
0.32 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
4,697
EAF
4,697
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
h-sections, rebar
Ownership
Owner Hyundai Steel Co
Parent Hyundai Steel Co [100.0%]
Workforce 2,244 employees
Country Context
South Korea crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Incheon
Asia Pacific
South Korea
37.4897°, 126.6379°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 4,697 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1953
- Products
- Finished rolled
- Certifications
- 2 recorded