SSAB Raahe makes steel by the integrated route: iron ore is smelted into liquid hot metal in a blast furnace, then refined into crude steel in a basic oxygen furnace. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 2.6 million tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, coil, hot rolled.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1964
Emissions
2025
3.74 Mt CO₂e
1.90 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Typical BF-BOF route: 1.8–2.0 t/t
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
2,600
BOF
2,600
Blast Furnace
2,600
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Iron Units
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet, coil, hot rolled
Ownership
Owner SSAB AB
Parent SSAB AB [100.0%]
Workforce 2,500 employees
State ownership Partial
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Location
Raahe
Europe
Finland
64.6511°, 24.4185°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 2,600 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1964
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded