U.S. Steel Fairfield
operatingUnited States Steel Corp · EAF route · Fairfield, North America, United States
GEM wikiU.S. Steel Fairfield 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 1.6 million tonnes per year. Its main products are pipe, tube, flat.
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Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 2020
Emissions
2025
0.19 Mt CO₂e
0.17 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
1,600
EAF
1,600
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
pipe, tube, flat
Ownership
Owner United States Steel Corp
Parent Nippon Steel Corp [100.0%]
Workforce 750 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Fairfield
North America
United States
33.4807°, -86.9379°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,600 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2020
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled