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Solb Steel Jizan

operating

EAF route · Jizan, Middle East, Saudi Arabia

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Solb Steel Jizan 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 billet, wire rod, rebar.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 2009

Emissions

2025

0.7 Mt CO₂e

0.70 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

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating
1,200 ttpa120 twiki

Steel Products

billet, wire rod, rebar

Ownership

Owner Solb Steel Co

Parent Industries Qatar QPSC [40.4%]; Saudi Pan Kingdom for Trading Industry and Contracting Co Ltd

Workforce 2,000 employees

State ownership Partial

Country Context

Saudi Arabia crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.