Ternium Apodaca 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 600 thousand tonnes per year.
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Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1993
Emissions
2025
0.019 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
600
EAF
600
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet, rebar, slab, plate, hot rolled, cold rolled, galvanized coils and sheets, wire rod, bars, tube
Ownership
Owner Ternium México SA de CV
Parent unknown [10.8%]; Ternium Argentina SA; Ternium SA
Workforce 251 employees
Country Context
Mexico crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Nearby Plants
Other unknown; Ternium Argentina SA; Ternium SA plants
Ternium Pesquería
Mexico · 2,600 ttpa
Ternium Guerrero San Nicolás de los Garza
Mexico · 2,400 ttpa
Ternium Puebla
Mexico · 1,330 ttpa
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Location
Apodaca
North America
Mexico
25.7421°, -100.2365°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 600 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1993
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded