SeAH Steel Pohang 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 1.2 million tonnes per year. Its main products are pipe, billet, rail.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1978
Emissions
2025
0.28 Mt CO₂e
0.27 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
1,200
EAF
1,200
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
pipe, billet, rail
Ownership
Owner SeAh Steel Holdings Corp
Parent SeAh Steel Holdings Corp [100.0%]
State ownership Partial
Country Context
South Korea crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Pohang
Asia Pacific
South Korea
35.9912°, 129.3758°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,200 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1978
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded