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WISCO Group Kunming Steel Co Ltd Yuxi Xinxing Steel Company

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BF–BOF Integrated route · Yanhe, Asia Pacific, China

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WISCO Group Kunming Steel Co Ltd Yuxi Xinxing 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 948 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are sheet, strip, coated, pipe, bar, hot rolled, wire, profile.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating2004
Idled2023

Emissions

2023

1.51 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

948

BOF

948

Blast Furnace

3,120

Iron Units

BF
BF #2mothballed
1,040 ttpa1080 m³wiki
BF
BF #3mothballed
1,040 ttpa1080 m³wiki
BF
unknown BF (1)mothballed
1,040 ttpa1080 m³wiki

Steel Units

BOF
BOF 2mothballed
474 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 3mothballed
474 ttpawiki

Steel Products

sheet, strip, coated, pipe, bar, hot rolled, wire, profile

Ownership

Owner Yuxi Xinxing Iron & Steel Co Ltd

Parent China Baowu Steel Group Co Ltd [48.4%]; Kunming Iron & Steel Holding Co Ltd [40.3%]; unknown [4.2%]

Workforce 2,019 employees

State ownership Partial

Country Context

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

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Nearby Plants

Other China Baowu Steel Group Co Ltd; Kunming Iron & Steel Holding Co Ltd; unknown plants

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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.