WISCO Group Kunming Steel Co Ltd Honghe Iron and Steel Company
retiredBF–BOF Integrated route · Yuguopu, Asia Pacific, China
GEM wikiWISCO Group Kunming Steel Co Ltd Honghe Iron and Steel Company 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 1.4 million tonnes per year. Its main products are sheet, strip, coated, pipe, bar, hot rolled, wire, profile.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2024
0.8 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
1,422
BOF
1,422
Blast Furnace
3,300
Sinter
3,200
Iron Units
Steel Units
Steel Products
sheet, strip, coated, pipe, bar, hot rolled, wire, profile
Ownership
Owner Honghe Iron and Steel Co Ltd
Parent China Baowu Steel Group Co Ltd [48.4%]; Kunming Iron & Steel Holding Co Ltd [40.3%]; unknown [4.2%]
Workforce 1,859 employees
State ownership Partial
Country Context
China crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Yuguopu
Asia Pacific
China
23.4707°, 103.2728°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,422 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2004
- Products
- Finished rolled