SSAB Americas Iowa 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 coil, plate.
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Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1997
Emissions
2025
0.17 Mt CO₂e
0.21 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
coil, plate
Ownership
Owner SSAB Americas Holding AB
Parent SSAB AB [100.0%]
Workforce 500 employees
State ownership Partial
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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SSAB Americas Alabama
United States · 1,250 ttpa
SSAB Luleå
Sweden · 13 ttpa
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Location
Muscatine
North America
United States
41.4820°, -90.8209°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,200 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1997
- Products
- Semi-finished
- Certifications
- 1 recorded