Nippon Stainless Steel Yamaguchi Works (Hikari Area)
operatingEAF route · Hikari, Asia Pacific, Japan
Nippon Stainless Steel Yamaguchi Works (Hikari Area) 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 500 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are wire rod, cold rolled, slab, bloom.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1955
Emissions
2025
0.1 Mt CO₂e
0.27 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
500
EAF
500
Production
Crude steel production: 410 ttpa (2024)
Steel Units
Steel Products
wire rod, cold rolled, slab, bloom
Ownership
Owner Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corp
Parent Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corp [100.0%]
Country Context
Japan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
Learn the processes this plant uses
Nearby Plants
Nippon Stainless Steel Yamaguchi Works (Shunan Area)
Shunan · ~18 km away
Nippon Setouchi Works (Kure Area)
Kure · ~63 km away
Kyoei Steel Yamaguchi Division (Yamaguchi)
Onoda · ~70 km away
Nippon Kyushu Works (Oita Area, Oita)
Oita · ~83 km away
Nippon Kyushu Works (Yawata Area, Kokura)
Kitakyushu · ~97 km away
Other Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corp plants
Explore
Location
Hikari
Asia Pacific
Japan
33.9647°, 131.9354°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 500 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1955
- Products
- Semi-finished
- Certifications
- 1 recorded