Qarmet

Name: Qarmet steel plant
Address: Temirtau, Eurasia, Kazakhstan

operating

Qazaqstan Steel Group LLP · BF–BOF Integrated route · Temirtau, Eurasia, Kazakhstan

ISO 14001

Qarmet makes steel by the integrated route: iron ore is smelted into liquid hot metal in a blast furnace, then refined into crude steel in a basic oxygen furnace. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 6.0 million tonnes per year.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating since 1960

Emissions

2025

8.12 Mt CO₂e

1.90 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Typical BF-BOF route: 1.8–2.0 t/t

Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

6,000

BOF

6,000

Blast Furnace

6,450

Sinter

5,000

Coking

2,446

Production

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

Iron Units

BF 1retired

1,100 ttpa1719 m³wiki

BF 2operating

1,300 ttpa2291 m³ · relined 2012Paul Wurthwiki

BF 3operating

3,800 ttpa3848 m³ · relined 2015Paul Wurth; Danieli Coruswiki

BF 4operating

1,350 ttpa3499 m³ · relined 2024wiki

Steel Units

BOF

BOF 1operating

2,000 ttpaDanieli Coruswiki

BOF

BOF 2operating

2,000 ttpaDanieli Coruswiki

BOF

BOF 3operating

2,000 ttpawiki

Inputs & Energy

Power Karaganda Steel Works power station (ТЭЦ-ПВС Карагандинского металлургического комбината) and Karaganda TPS-2 power station (ТЭЦ -2 АО "Арселор Миттал Темиртау")

Iron ore Orken Lisakovskoe Mine (P100000128229); Orken Kentobe Mine (P100000128575); Orken Atasu Mine (P100000128584); Orken Atansor Mine (P100000128574)

Met coal 8 coal mines across Karaganda region