Liberty Steel Georgetown 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 908 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, wire rod, wire, mesh.
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Operating since 1969
Emissions
2025
0.36 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
908
EAF
908
Production
EAF steel production: 0 ttpa (2024)
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet, wire rod, wire, mesh
Ownership
Owner Liberty Steel Group
Parent GFG Alliance Ltd
Workforce 85 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Georgetown
North America
United States
33.3673°, -79.2925°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 908 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1969
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled