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Weifang Special Steel Group Co Ltd

operating pre-retirement

BF–BOF Integrated route · Asia Pacific, China

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Weifang Special Steel Group Co Ltd 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 3.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are wire, bar.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating1993
Retirement announced2024

Emissions

2025

4.86 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

3,000

BOF

3,000

Blast Furnace

2,350

Production

Crude steel production: 2,668 ttpa (2019)

Iron Units

BF
BF 1operating pre-retirement
1,130 ttpa1186 m³ · relined 2020wiki
BF
BF 2operating pre-retirement
1,220 ttpa1360 m³ · relined 2017wiki

Steel Units

BOF
unknown BOF (1)operating pre-retirement
1,500 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (2)operating pre-retirement
1,500 ttpawiki

Steel Products

wire, bar

Ownership

Owner Weifang SPECIAL Steel Group Co Ltd

Parent Weiao (Shandong) Investment Co Ltd [100.0%]

Workforce 6,089 employees

Country Context

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

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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).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.