U.S. Steel Gary
operatingUnited States Steel Corp · BF–BOF Integrated route · Gary, North America, United States
U.S. Steel Gary 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 7.8 million tonnes per year. Its main products are sheet, plate, hot rolled, cold rolled, galvanized sheet, tinplate, pig iron.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1908
Emissions
2025
10.8 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
7,800
BOF
7,800
Blast Furnace
6,495
Sinter
4,400
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Iron Units
Steel Units
Steel Products
sheet, plate, hot rolled, cold rolled, galvanized sheet, tinplate, pig iron
Ownership
Owner United States Steel Corp
Parent Nippon Steel Corp [100.0%]
Workforce 2,246 employees
Country Context
United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Gary
North America
United States
41.6208°, -87.3483°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 7,800 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1908
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded