Nucor Steel Seattle 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 855 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are bar.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1904
Emissions
2025
0.063 Mt CO₂e
0.11 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
855
EAF
855
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
bar
Ownership
Owner Nucor Steel Seattle Inc
Parent Nucor Corp
Workforce 320 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Seattle
North America
United States
47.5696°, -122.3674°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 855 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1904
- Products
- Finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded