UMB Hunedoara 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 profile.
Process Route
EAF
Timeline
Operating1884
Retired2025
Emissions
2025
0.041 Mt CO₂e
0.12 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
EAF
unknown EAF (1)retired
800 ttpawiki
Steel Products
profile
Ownership
Owner UMB Steel SRL
Parent UMB Steel SRL [100.0%]
Workforce 582 employees
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Location
Hunedoara
Europe
Romania
45.7352°, 22.9163°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 800 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1884
- Products
- Finished rolled
- Certifications
- 2 recorded