Tokyo Steel Utsunomiya 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 800 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are sheet, channel, i-beam, h-beam, beam.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2025
0.048 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
800
EAF
800
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Inputs & Energy
Power 2 MW Solar power plant (began in 2021-02)
Steel Products
sheet, channel, i-beam, h-beam, beam
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
Utsunomiya
Asia Pacific
Japan
36.5404°, 139.9931°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 800 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1995
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled