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Tangshan Chunxing Special Steel Co Ltd

operating pre-retirement

BF–BOF Integrated route · Tangshan, Asia Pacific, China

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Tangshan Chunxing Special Steel Co Ltd 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 2.4 million tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, bar, strip, hot rolled.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating2003
Retirement announced2022
Retired2026

Emissions

2023

1.81 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

2,400

BOF

2,400

Blast Furnace

1,820

Production

Crude steel production: 2,400 ttpa (2021)

Iron Units

BF
BF 1operating pre-retirement
910 ttpa1080 m³wiki
BF
BF 2operating pre-retirement
910 ttpa1080 m³wiki

Steel Units

BOF
unknown BOF (1)operating pre-retirement
1,200 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (2)operating pre-retirement
1,200 ttpawiki

Steel Products

billet, bar, strip, hot rolled

Ownership

Owner Tangshan Chunxing Special Steel Co Ltd

Parent Tangshan Donghua Iron & Steel Enterprise Group Co Ltd [84.2%]; natural person(s) [15.8%]

Workforce 3 employees

Country Context

China crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.