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JFE Bars & Shapes Mizushima Works

operating pre-retirement

EAF route · Kurashiki, Asia Pacific, Japan

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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

EAF

Timeline

Construction1961
Operating1967

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

EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating pre-retirement
600 ttpa100 twiki
EAF
unknown EAF (2)announced
120 tDanieliwiki

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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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.