Osaka Steel Sakai 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 4.7 million tonnes per year. Its main products are rail, rebar, bar, billet, channel, i-beam, angle.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1950
Emissions
2025
0.21 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
4,650
EAF
4,650
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
rail, rebar, bar, billet, channel, i-beam, angle
Ownership
Owner Osaka Steel Co Ltd
Parent Osaka Steel Co Ltd [100.0%]
Workforce 328 employees
Country Context
Japan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Sakai
Asia Pacific
Japan
34.5982°, 135.4544°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 4,650 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1950
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded