Nucor-Yamato Steel Blytheville
operatingEAF route · Blytheville, North America, United States
Nucor-Yamato Steel Blytheville 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 3.2 million tonnes per year. Its main products are beam.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1988
Emissions
2025
0.35 Mt CO₂e
0.16 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
3,174
EAF
3,174
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
beam
Ownership
Owner Nucor Yamato Steel Co
Parent Nucor Corp [51.0%]; Yamato Kogyo Co Ltd [49.0%]
Workforce 750 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Blytheville
North America
United States
35.9414°, -89.7138°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 3,174 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1988
- Products
- Finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded