Nippon Stainless Steel Yamaguchi Works (Shunan Area)
operatingEAF route · Shunan, Asia Pacific, Japan
Nippon Stainless Steel Yamaguchi Works (Shunan 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 866 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are sheet, plate, bars, wire.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1958
Emissions
2025
0.18 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
866
EAF
866
Production
Crude steel production: 200 ttpa (2024)
Steel Units
Steel Products
sheet, plate, bars, wire
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.
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Location
Shunan
Asia Pacific
Japan
34.0590°, 131.7772°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 866 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1958
- Products
- Finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded