Steel Dynamics Columbia City
operatingEAF route · Columbia City, North America, United States
GEM wikiSteel Dynamics Columbia City 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 2.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are structural, rail.
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Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 2002
Emissions
2025
0.24 Mt CO₂e
0.17 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
2,000
EAF
2,000
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
structural, rail
Ownership
Owner Steel Dynamics Inc
Parent Steel Dynamics Inc [100.0%]
Workforce 3,150 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Columbia City
North America
United States
41.1216°, -85.3486°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 2,000 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2002
- Products
- Finished rolled