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United Steel Industrial Kuwait Steel Sharq

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EAF route · Shuaibah, Middle East, Kuwait

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United Steel Industrial Kuwait Steel Sharq 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 1.2 million tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, rebar.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 2007

Emissions

2025

0.27 Mt CO₂e

0.26 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

1,200

EAF

1,200

Steel Units

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Steel Products

billet, rebar

Ownership

Owner United Steel Industries Co KSCC

Parent Bukhamseen Holding Group Co; Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development & Renovation Organization

Workforce 900 employees

State ownership Partial

Learn the processes this plant uses

Steelmaking

Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steelmaking

Secondary Metallurgy

Ladle Furnace (LF) — Secondary Metallurgy

Casting

Continuous Casting

Rolling

Hot Rolling

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