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Wu an Yuhua Iron and Steel Co Ltd

operating pre-retirement

Wuan Yuhua Steel Co Ltd · BF–BOF Integrated route · Handan, Asia Pacific, China

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Wu an Yuhua Iron and Steel 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 2.7 million tonnes per year. Its main products are wire rod, billet, coil, hot rolled.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating1988
Retirement announced2021

Emissions

2025

5.49 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

2,700

BOF

2,700

Blast Furnace

1,820

Production

Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.

Iron Units

BF
BF 1retired
650 ttpa600 m³wiki
BF
BF 2retired
650 ttpa600 m³wiki
BF
BF 3retired
650 ttpa600 m³wiki
BF
BF 4operating pre-retirement
910 ttpa1080 m³wiki
BF
BF 5operating pre-retirement
910 ttpa1080 m³wiki

Steel Units

BOF
BOF 1retired
700 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 2retired
700 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (3)operating pre-retirement
1,350 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (4)operating pre-retirement
1,350 ttpawiki

Steel Products

wire rod, billet, coil, hot rolled

Ownership

Owner Wuan Yuhua Steel Co Ltd

Parent Jinan Iron & Steel Group Co Ltd [88.1%]; natural person(s) [11.9%]

Workforce 4,957 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.