Salzgitter Peiner Träger Peine 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 beam, sections.
Process Route
EAF
Timeline
Operating since 1858
Emissions
2025
0.057 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
1,000
EAF
1,000
Steel Units
EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating
1,000 ttpawiki
Steel Products
beam, sections
Ownership
Owner Peiner Traeger GmbH
Parent Salzgitter AG
Workforce 800 employees
State ownership Partial
Country Context
Germany crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Peine
Europe
Germany
52.3139°, 10.2585°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,000 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1858
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 2 recorded