Stahl Gerlafingen 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 720 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are rebar, plate, bar, wire, profile.
Process Route
EAF
Timeline
Operating since 1918
Emissions
2025
0.05 Mt CO₂e
0.08 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
720
EAF
720
Steel Units
Steel Products
rebar, plate, bar, wire, profile
Ownership
Owner Stahl Gerlafingen AG
Parent Beltrame Holding SpA [79.4%]; unknown [21.6%]
Workforce 540 employees
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Location
Gerlafingen
Europe
Switzerland
47.1720°, 7.5623°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 720 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1918
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled