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Yangchun New Steel Co Ltd

operating

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

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Yangchun New 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 2.4 million tonnes per year. Its main products are wire, bar.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Operating since 2007

Emissions

2025

2.86 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

2,400

BOF

2,400

Blast Furnace

2,200

Production

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

Iron Units

BF
BF 1operating
1,100 ttpa1250 m³ · relined 2023wiki
BF
BF 2operating
1,100 ttpa1250 m³ · relined 2024wiki

Steel Units

BOF
unknown BOF (1)operating
1,200 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (2)operating
1,200 ttpawiki

Steel Products

wire, bar

Ownership

Owner Yangchun New Iron & Steel Co Ltd

Parent Hunan Valin Steel Co Ltd [51.0%]; Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Group Co Ltd [24.7%]; unknown [14.1%]; Hunan Development Investment Group Co Ltd [3.6%]; Hunan Caixin Financial Holding Group Co Ltd [3.5%]; Hunan Xingxiang Investment Holding Group Co Ltd [3.1%]

Workforce 2,792 employees

State ownership Partial

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.