U. S. Steel Košice
operatingUS Steel Košice sro · BF–BOF Integrated route · Košice, Europe, Slovakia
U. S. Steel Košice 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 4.5 million tonnes per year. Its main products are tinplate, galvanized, sheet, strip, coated, pipe, cold rolled, coil, hot rolled.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1965
Emissions
2025
6.77 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
4,500
BOF
4,500
Blast Furnace
4,500
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Iron Units
Steel Units
Inputs & Energy
Met coal Europe
Steel Products
tinplate, galvanized, sheet, strip, coated, pipe, cold rolled, coil, hot rolled
Ownership
Owner US Steel Košice sro
Parent Nippon Steel Corp
Workforce 7,712 employees
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Location
Košice
Europe
Slovakia
48.6120°, 21.1914°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 4,500 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1965
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded