Outokumpu Stainless USA 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 1.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are coil, sheet.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 2007
Emissions
2025
0.087 Mt CO₂e
0.13 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
1,000
EAF
1,000
Steel Units
Steel Products
coil, sheet
Ownership
Owner Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC
Parent Solidium Oy [15.5%]; small shareholder(s)
Workforce 972 employees
State ownership Partial
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Nearby Plants
Other Solidium Oy; small shareholder(s) plants
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Location
Calvert
North America
United States
31.1482°, -87.9887°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,000 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2007
- Products
- Crude, semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded