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Lion Industries Amsteel Banting

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DRI–EAF route · Banting, Asia Pacific, Malaysia

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Lion Industries Amsteel Banting follows the DRI–EAF route: iron ore is reduced in the solid state to direct reduced iron by direct reduction, then melted into steel in an electric arc furnace. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 1.3 million tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, wire rod, bar.

Process Route

DRIEAF

Timeline

Construction1996
Operating2001
Idled2025

Emissions

2025

0.9 Mt CO₂e

1.00 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

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

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

1,250

EAF

1,250

DRI

1,540

Iron Units

DRI
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Steel Units

EAF
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1,250 ttpa160 tBSE (Badische Stahl Engineering)wiki

Steel Products

billet, wire rod, bar

Ownership

Owner Amsteel Mills Sdn Bhd

Parent Lion Industries Corporation Bhd

Learn the processes this plant uses

Ironmaking

Direct Reduction (DRI / HBI)

Steelmaking

Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking

Secondary Metallurgy

Ladle Furnace (LF) — Secondary Metallurgy

Casting

Continuous Casting

Rolling

Hot Rolling

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Klang · ~34 km away

Maegma Minerals Lumut HBI

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Other Lion Industries Corporation Bhd plants

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Malaysia · 3,200 ttpa

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