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Xingtai Iron and Steel Co Ltd

operating pre-retirement

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

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Xingtai 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 3.1 million tonnes per year. Its main products are cord, spring steel, bearings, wire.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating1958
Retirement announced2021

Emissions

2025

3.89 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

3,060

BOF

3,060

Blast Furnace

890

Production

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

Iron Units

BF
BF 1retired
500 ttpa420 m³wiki
BF
BF 3retired
500 ttpa420 m³wiki
BF
BF 5retired
520 ttpa450 m³wiki
BF
BF 6operating pre-retirement
890 ttpa1080 m³wiki

Steel Units

BOF
BOF 1operating pre-retirement
700 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 2operating pre-retirement
700 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 3operating pre-retirement
700 ttpawiki
BOF
BOF 4operating pre-retirement
960 ttpawiki

Steel Products

cord, spring steel, bearings, wire

Ownership

Owner Xingtai Iron and Steel Co Ltd

Parent Hebei Jianen Trading Co Ltd [48.1%]; Xing Steel Fine Wire Holdings Co Ltd [26.0%]; Xingtai Jinglin Trading Co Ltd [25.9%]

Workforce 3,207 employees

Country Context

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

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Nearby Plants

Other Hebei Jianen Trading Co Ltd; Xing Steel Fine Wire Holdings Co Ltd; Xingtai Jinglin Trading Co Ltd 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.