Ternium Brasil Santa Cruz
operatingBF–BOF Integrated route · Santa Cruz, Central & South America, Brazil
Ternium Brasil Santa Cruz 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 5.2 million tonnes per year. Its main products are slab.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 2010
Emissions
2025
8.26 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
5,200
BOF
5,200
Blast Furnace
5,300
Sinter
5,700
Coking
1,800
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Iron Units
Steel Units
Inputs & Energy
Power Onsite power plant generating all energy required for steelmaking using gases from production process
Steel Products
slab
Ownership
Owner Ternium Brasil Ltda
Parent Ternium SA [100.0%]
Workforce 8,000 employees
Country Context
Brazil crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Santa Cruz
Central & South America
Brazil
-22.9125°, -43.7416°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 5,200 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2010
- Products
- Semi-finished
- Certifications
- 2 recorded