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KISCO steel Changwon

operating

EAF route · Changwon, Asia Pacific, South Korea

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KISCO steel Changwon 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 billet, forged, rebar.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 1965

Emissions

2025

0.21 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

3,000

EAF

3,000

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating
875 ttpa70 twiki
EAF
unknown EAF (2)operating
1,500 ttpa120 twiki
EAF
unknown EAF (3)operating
625 ttpa50 twiki

Steel Products

billet, forged, rebar

Ownership

Owner KISCO Corp

Parent KISCO Corp [100.0%]

Workforce 556 employees

Country Context

South Korea 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.