JFE Bars & Shapes Mizushima Works
operating pre-retirementEAF route · Kurashiki, Asia Pacific, Japan
JFE Bars & Shapes Mizushima 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 600 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are shapes, rebar, bar.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2025
0.036 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
600
EAF
600
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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Location
Kurashiki
Asia Pacific
Japan
34.5039°, 133.7101°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 600 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1967
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded