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North American Stainless Ghent

operating

EAF route · Ghent, North America, United States

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North American Stainless Ghent 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 1.6 million tonnes per year. Its main products are long products, flat.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 1990

Emissions

2025

0.088 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

1,600

EAF

1,600

Production

Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating
800 ttpa140 tSMS Demagwiki
EAF
unknown EAF (2)operating
800 ttpaSiemens VAIwiki

Steel Products

long products, flat

Ownership

Owner North American Stainless Inc

Parent Acerinox SA [100.0%]

Workforce 1,670 employees

Country Context

United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Other Acerinox SA plants

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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).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.