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National Steel Complex Limited Karachi

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EAF route · Karachi, Asia Pacific, Pakistan

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National Steel Complex Limited Karachi 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 about 1.3 million tonnes per year. Its main products are cold dri, hot dri, hbi.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Announced2006
Construction2011
Idled2013

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

1,280

EAF

1,280

Iron Units

DRI
unknown DRI (1)mothballed
1,280 ttpasyngas (reformed methane)wiki

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)announced
1,280 ttpawiki

Inputs & Energy

Power 38MW combined cycle power (CCP) plant

Iron ore Mashkichah, Nokundi

Steel Products

cold DRI, hot DRI, HBI

Ownership

Owner National Steel Complex Ltd

Parent Ciena Group

Country Context

Pakistan 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).