Iron and steel production

Iron and steel production
History of ferrous metallurgy List of steel producers
Iron production (Ironworks)	Smelting Bloomery (produces sponge iron) Blast furnace (produces pig iron)  Cold blast Hot blast Anthracite iron   Direct reduced iron Secondary Wrought iron (via Finery forge or Reverberatory Puddling Furnace) Cast iron (via Cupola furnace or Induction furnace)
Steelmaking (Steel mill)	Primary (Pre-1850) Pattern welding (Damascus steel) Crucible steel Tatara furnace Cementation process Primary (Post-1850) Bessemer process Open hearth furnace Electric arc furnace Basic oxygen process Secondary Electro-slag remelting Vacuum arc remelting Argon oxygen decarburization
Production by country	Bangladesh China Italy Luxembourg

Authority control	GND: 4022578-1 NDL: 00573955

In millions of tonnes (Tg)

Ranking (2016)	2016[1]	2015[2]	2014[3]	2013[4]	2012[5]	2011[6]	2010[6]	2009[6]	2008[6]	2007[6]	Company	Headquarters
1	95.5	97.1	98.1	96.1	93.6	97.2	98.2	77.5	103.3	116.4	ArcelorMittal	Luxembourg
2	63.8	60.7	76.4	83.2	79.2	81.0	-	-	-	-	China Baowu Steel Group	China
3	46.2	47.7	47.1	45.8	42.8	44.4	52.9[7]	40.2[8]	33.3	31.1	Hesteel Group	China
4	46.2	46.3	49.3	50.1	47.9	33.4[9]	35.0[9]	26.5[9]	37.5[9]	35.7[9]	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal	Japan
5	41.6	42.0	41.4	38.4	39.9	39.1	35.4	31.1	34.7	31.1	POSCO	South Korea
6	33.3	34.2	35.3	35.1	32.3	31.9	30.1[7]	26.4[7]	23.3	22.9	Jiangsu Shagang	China
7	33.2	32.5	34.3	33.7	30.2	29.8	22.1	20.1	16.0	16.2	Ansteel Group	China
8	30.3	29.8	31.4	31.2	30.4	29.9	31.1	25.8	33.0	34.0	JFE	Japan
9	26.8	28.6	30.8	31.5	31.4	30.0	25.8[7]	17.3[7]	12.2	12.9	Shougang	China
10	24.5	26.3	26.2	25.3	23.0	23.8	23.5[7]	21.9[7]	24.4	26.5	Tata Steel	India
11	23.0	21.7	23.3	22.8	23.0	24.0	23.2[7]	26.4[8]	21.8[10]	23.8	Shandong Iron and Steel Group	China
12	22.0	19.6	21.4	20.2	20.1	19.9	18.3	14.0	20.4	20.0	Nucor Corporation	United States
13	20.1	20.5	20.6	17.2	17.1	16.3	12.9	8.4	9.9	10.0	Hyundai Steel	South Korea
14	18.6	18.8	18.9	18.8	17.3	16.7	15.4[7]	14.8[8]	15.0[8]	14.2	Maanshan Iron and Steel Company	China
15	17.2	17.3	17.2	15.9	15.1	17.9	16.7[7]	11.0	15.9	17.0	ThyssenKrupp	Germany
16	16.6	16.0	16.1	15.5	14.9	12.1	11.9	10.9	11.3	9.7	Novolipetsk Steel	Russia
17	16.5	15.1	15.2	14.3	13.8	12.4	8.8[7]	8.4[7]	6.5	7.8	Jianlong Steel	China
18	16.0	17.0	19.0	19.0	19.8	20.5	21.6	14.2	20.4	18.6	Gerdau	Brazil
19	15.5	14.8	15.4	14.3	12.7	14.0	12.7	8.9	11.0	10.9	China Steel	Taiwan
20	15.5	14.9	15.4	15.0	14.1	15.9	15.1[7]	11.8[8]	11.3[8]	11.1	Valin Steel Group	China
21	14.9	12.4	12.7	11.8	8.5	7.0	6.4	5.5	3.8	3.0	JSW Steel Ltd	India
22	14.4	15.0	16.3	16.8	15.1	16.5	22.1[7]	9.1[7]	7.4[8]	7.6	Benxi Steel Group	China
23	14.4	14.3	13.6	13.5	13.5	13.5	13.6	13.5	13.7	13.9	Steel Authority of India Limited	India
24	14.2	14.5	19.7	20.4	21.4	22.0	22.3	15.2	23.2	21.5	United States Steel Corporation	United States
25	14.0	14.1	14.4	14.3	13.6	12.6	11.4	10.6	10.0	10.1	IMIDRO	Iran
26	13.9	14.0	11.4	12.7	13.2	11.2	9.8[7]	9.9[7]	7.5	6.2	Rizhao Steel (zh)	China
27	13.7	13.2	13.6	13.2	3.3	2.6	-	-	-	-	Fangda Steel	China
28	13.5	14.4	15.5	16.1	15.9	16.8	16.3	15.3	17.7	16.2	Evraz	Russia
29	12.5	12.2	13.0	11.9	13.0	12.2	11.4	9.6	12.0	13.3	Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works	Russia
30	12.3	11.9	10.7	10.7	10.2	10.2	10.1[7]	10.1[7]	8.8	9.8	Baotou Steel	China
31	11.6	11.5	14.2	15.7	15.1	15.3	14.7[7]	16.7	19.2	17.3	Severstal	Russia
32	11.1	10.8	11.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Liuzhou Iron and Steel (zh)[11]	China
33	11.1	9.8	9.1	8.8	9.1	9.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Jinxi Iron and Steel	China
34	11.0	11.3	10.5	9.7	7.3	5.8	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Hebei Jingye Iron and Steel	China
35	10.5	10.7	10.9	10.3	7.7	9.4	10.0[7]	8.5[7]	9.0[8]		Anyang Steel	China
36	10.4	9.6	9.2	8.2	7.0	5.7	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Sanming Iron and Stee	China
37	10.3	9.7	11.2	14.3	12.5	14.4	13.8[7]	7.0[7]	8.2[8]	9.1	Metinvest	Ukraine
38	10.3	10.3	10.7	10.0	10.1	9.9	9.6[7]	9.5[7]	9.2	9.3	Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group	China
39	10.2	10.4	10.3	10.2	9.1	8.6	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Handan Zongheng Iron and Steel	China

Other major steel producers[edit]

• Acerinox, Spain
• Aisha Steel Mills, Pakistan
• Aichi Steel Corporation, Japan
• AK Steel, formerly Armco, United States
• Allegheny Technologies, United States
• Altos Hornos de México, Mexico
• Angang Steel Company Limited, China
• Aperam, Luxembourg
• Arrium, Australia
• BlueScope Steel, Australia
• British Steel Ltd, United Kingdom
• BSRM, Bangladesh
• Byelorussian Steel Works, Belarus
• Carpenter Technology Corporation, United States
• Celsa Group, Spain^[12]
• CITIC Limited, China
• Commercial Metals Company, United States
• Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, Brazil
• Crucible Industries, United States
• Dongkuk Steel, South Korea
• Erdemir, Turkey
• Essar Steel, India
• EZDK, Egypt
• ILVA, Italy
• Hadeed, Saudi Arabia
• Illich Steel and Iron Works, Ukraine
• ISD Corporation, Ukraine^[12]
• Ittefaq Group, Pakistan
• Japan Steel Works, Japan
• Jindal Steel and Power, India
• Jiuquan Steel (zh)^[2]
• Kobe Steel, Japan
• Libyan Iron and Steel Company, Libya
• Mahindra Ugine Steel, India
• Marcegaglia, Italy
• Mechel, Russia
• Metalloinvest, Russia
• Metinvest, Ukraine
• Mitsui & Co., Japan
• MMX Mineração, Brazil
• Nanjing Iron and Steel Company
• Nisshin Steel, Japan
• Olympic Steel, United States
• Outokumpu, Finland
• Pakistan Steel Mills, Pakistan
• Panzhihua Iron and Steel, China
• Qatar Steel, Qatar
• Rautaruukki, Finland
• Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., United States
• Sahaviriya Steel Industries, Thailand
• Salzgitter AG, Germany
• Schnitzer Steel Industries, United States
• Sheffield Forgemasters, United Kingdom
• SIDERPERU, Peru
• Sidetur, Venezuela
• SSAB, Sweden
• Steel Dynamics, United States
• Tangshan Guofeng Iron and Steel, China^[12][2]
• Techint, Italy
• Ternium - Hylsa and Imsa in Mexico, Siderar in Argentina
• Tuwairqi Steel Mills, Pakistan
• Usiminas, Brazil
• Vallourec, France
• Vizag Steel, India
• Voestalpine, Austria
• Votorantim Siderurgia, Brazil
• Xinyu Iron and Steel, China^[12][2]
• Zenith Iron and Steel^[3][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steel_producers