Yieh United Steel Kaohsiung
operatingEAF route · Gangshan, Asia Pacific, Taiwan
Yieh United Steel Kaohsiung 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 about 1.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are coil, hot rolled.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1988
Emissions
2025
0.19 Mt CO₂e
0.27 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
1,000
EAF
1,000
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
coil, hot rolled
Ownership
Owner Yieh United Steel Corp
Parent Yieh United Steel Corp [100.0%]
Workforce 3,352 employees
Country Context
Taiwan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Gangshan
Asia Pacific
Taiwan
22.8309°, 120.3006°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,000 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1988
- Products
- Finished rolled
- Certifications
- 2 recorded