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Jiangxi Yuanxing Iron and Steel Co Ltd

operating pre-retirement

EAF route · Asia Pacific, China

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Jiangxi Yuanxing Iron and Steel Co Ltd 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 500 thousand tonnes per year.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating2003
Retired2022

Emissions

2022

0.057 Mt CO₂e

0.27 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

500

EAF

500

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating pre-retirement
500 ttpa50 twiki

Ownership

Owner Jiangxi Yuanxing Iron and Steel Co Ltd

Parent Jiangxi Yuanxing Iron and Steel Co Ltd [100.0%]

Country Context

China 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.