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Walsin Lihwa Tainan stainless

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EAF route · Tianan, Asia Pacific, Taiwan

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Walsin Lihwa Tainan stainless 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 1.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are coil, billet.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 1993

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

1,000

EAF

1,000

Steel Units

EAF
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Steel Products

coil, billet

Ownership

Owner Walsin Lihwa Corp

Parent Walsin Lihwa Corp [100.0%]

Country Context

Taiwan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).