Yamato Steel Himeji is a scrap-based steel plant: an electric arc furnace melts recycled steel scrap into new crude steel. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of 700 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are shapes, structural, castings, sheet, channel, flat, i-beam, angle, h-beam.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1961
Emissions
2025
0.042 Mt CO₂e
0.08 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Typical EAF route: 0.5–0.7 t/t
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
700
EAF
700
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
shapes, structural, castings, sheet, channel, flat, i-beam, angle, h-beam
Ownership
Owner Yamato Steel Co Ltd
Parent Yamato Kogyo Co Ltd [100.0%]
Workforce 336 employees
Country Context
Japan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Himeji
Asia Pacific
Japan
34.7833°, 134.6046°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 700 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1961
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded