Liberty Steel & Wire Peoria 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 726 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, wire rod, wire, mesh.
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Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1889
Emissions
2025
0.04 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
726
EAF
726
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet, wire rod, wire, mesh
Ownership
Owner Liberty Steel Group
Parent GFG Alliance Ltd
Workforce 800 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Peoria
North America
United States
41.5132°, -87.6214°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 726 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1889
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled