Southern Steel Prai Penang 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 1.4 million tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, wire rod, bar.
Process Route
EAF
Timeline
Operating since 1963
Emissions
2025
0.14 Mt CO₂e
0.14 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
1,400
EAF
1,400
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet, wire rod, bar
Ownership
Owner Southern Steel Bhd
Parent Southern Steel Bhd [100.0%]
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Location
Prai
Asia Pacific
Malaysia
5.3995°, 100.3822°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,400 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1963
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded