KG Steel Dangjin
retiredKG Steel Co Ltd · EAF route · Dangjin, Asia Pacific, South Korea
KG Steel Dangjin 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 3.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are sheet, strip, bar, h-beam, wire.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2024
0.64 Mt CO₂e
0.57 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
3,000
EAF
3,000
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
sheet, strip, bar, h-beam, wire
Ownership
Owner KG Steel Co Ltd
Parent KG Chemical Corp
Workforce 597 employees
Country Context
South Korea crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Other KG Chemical Corp plants
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Location
Dangjin
Asia Pacific
South Korea
36.9837°, 126.7448°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 3,000 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1999
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded