Tokyo Steel Tahara 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 2.6 million tonnes per year. Its main products are pipe, coil, sheet.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2025
0.16 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
2,600
EAF
2,600
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Inputs & Energy
Power 15.1 MW solar power plant (began in 2021-02)
Steel Products
pipe, coil, sheet
Ownership
Owner Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co Ltd
Parent Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co Ltd [100.0%]
Workforce 257 employees
Country Context
Japan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Tahara
Asia Pacific
Japan
34.7020°, 137.2491°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 2,600 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2010
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled