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Liberty Steel Dunaferr Dunaújváros

retired

BF–BOF Integrated route · Dunaújváros, Europe, Hungary

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Liberty Steel Dunaferr Dunaújváros makes steel by the integrated route: iron ore is smelted into liquid hot metal in a blast furnace, then refined into crude steel in a basic oxygen furnace. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 1.6 million tonnes per year. Its main products are profile, cold rolled, coated, hot rolled.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating1954
Idled2024
Retired2025

Emissions

2025

2.20 Mt CO₂e

1.45 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Typical BF-BOF route: 1.8–2.0 t/t

Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

1,600

BOF

1,600

Blast Furnace

1,300

Sinter

1,000

Iron Units

BF
BF 1retired
640 ttpa960 m³wiki
BF
BF 2retired
660 ttpa1033 m³ · relined 2016wiki

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)cancelled
1,500 ttpa150 tCISDIwiki
EAF
unknown EAF (2)cancelled
1,500 ttpa150 tCISDIwiki
BOF
unknown BOF (1)retired
800 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (2)retired
800 ttpawiki

Steel Products

profile, cold rolled, coated, hot rolled

Ownership

Owner Liberty Steel Group

Parent GFG Alliance Ltd

Workforce 4,500 employees

Learn the processes this plant uses

Ironmaking

Blast Furnace Ironmaking

Steelmaking

Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) Steelmaking

Secondary Metallurgy

Ladle Furnace (LF) — Secondary Metallurgy

Casting

Continuous Casting

Rolling

Cold Rolling

Rolling

Hot Rolling

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