JFE Bars & Shapes Kashima Works 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 720 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are shapes, rebar, bar.
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Process Route
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Operating since 1933
Emissions
2025
0.043 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
720
EAF
720
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
shapes, rebar, bar
Ownership
Owner JFE Bars & Shapes Corp
Parent JFE Holdings Inc [100.0%]
Workforce 218 employees
Country Context
Japan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Other JFE Holdings Inc plants
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JFE West Japan Works (Kurashiki)
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JFE Bars & Shapes Himeji Works
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JFE Sendai Works
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Location
Kamisu
Asia Pacific
Japan
35.8820°, 140.7317°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 720 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1933
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded