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Kyoei Steel Yamaguchi Division (Yamaguchi)

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EAF route · Onoda, Asia Pacific, Japan

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Kyoei Steel Yamaguchi Division (Yamaguchi) 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 575 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are angle, bar.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 1972

Emissions

2025

0.035 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

575

EAF

575

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating
575 ttpa50 twiki

Steel Products

angle, bar

Ownership

Owner Kyoei Steel Ltd

Parent Kyoei Steel Ltd [100.0%]

Workforce 158 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.