JFE East Japan Works (Chiba) steel plant

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JFE East Japan Works (Chiba) steel plant, also known as JFE - Kawasaki Steel, is a 4500 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Chiba, Kantō, Japan.

Location

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  • Location: 1 Kawasaki-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba Pref. 260-0835 Japan[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 35.580917, 140.104196 (exact)

Background

The JFE East Japan Works (Chiba) steel plant began operating in 1951.[2] It is one of the many JFE Steel sites. In 1953, No. 1 blast furnace (BF) was blown in, No, 1 hot strip mill and No.1 cold strip mill were completed in succession in 1958, establishing a complete integrated iron and steel works centered on the production of steel strip. After a series of plant expansions, the construction of main equipment slowed following the blowing-in of No.5 BF in 1965. The No.6 BF, No.3 steel making shop, and No.3 slabbing mlll were constructed on a newly reclaimed site called the West Plant in 1977, aiming at modernization and rationalization, together wlth improvement of the environment. Following the rapid appreciation of yen in 1985, Japanese steel iindustry was obliged to adopt drastic rationalization plans. Kawasaki Steel shifted crude steel production to Mizushima Works, shut down the plate mill and No.2 steelmaking shop at Chiba Works, carried out a major overall modernization at Chiba Works, and concentrated the production of stainless steel sheets and electrical steel at Chiba Works and Mizushima Works, respectively. The main production processes at Chiba Works were concentrated from the East Plant to the West Plant, and No.4 steel making shop was put into operation in 1994, followed by No.3 hot strip mill in 1995.[3]

In 2020, the company announced its plan to establish a pilot BF-EAF to test CO2 recycling into methane, the construction of which has already begun and is expected to be completed by 2025.[4]

In May 2023, JFE Steel announced that it will install a new electric-arc furnace at the No. 4 steelmaking shop of the plant at a cost of about 15 billion yen and is expected to be commissioned by April 2025.[5]




Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size Power source
operating[6] 1951[7] 5730[8] 453000 kW on-site thermal power generator[7]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
JFE Holdings Inc [100%][9] 4295880726 [100%] JFE Steel Corp[10] 4295877328

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[1] sheets, stainless steel, plates, pipes[1] automotive; building and infrastructure; steel packaging; tools and machinery[11] yes[12] blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF)[1] coking plant (3 batteries with 260 ovens total); sinter plant (plant #4 237m2); 2 BOF (BOF#3 (322-tonne, began in 1977), BOF#4 (185-tonne))[13][7][14]

Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
4500 TTPA[7][1] 4500 TTPA

Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
4689 TTPA[7][15] 4689 TTPA

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter Coke
>0 TTPA >0 TTPA

Table 7: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum):

Year BOF Production EAF Production OHF Production Total (all routes)
2020 3516 TTPA[16] 3516 TTPA
2021 3831 TTPA[17] 3831 TTPA


Blast Furnace Details

Table 8: Blast Furnace Details:

Unit name Status Start date Current size Current capacity
6 operating[18][19][20] 1977[18][19][20] 5153 m³[7] 4689 TTPA[15]

Articles and Resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20211230085749/https://www.jfe-steel.co.jp/en/works/east/index.html. Archived from the original on 2021-12-30. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "East Japan Works, JFE Steel" (PDF). JFE Steel. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 12, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
  3. Sudo, Fumio; Fujii, Tetsuya (June 2001). "Progress in Technological Developments During the Past 50 years at Kawasaki Steel and Future prospects" (PDF). JFE Steel. Retrieved 16 January 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "JFE Steel Carbon Neutrality Strategy Briefing" (PDF). JFE Steel Corporation. 01 September 2022. Retrieved 20 February, 2024. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. Publisher, Stainless Steel World (2023-05-15). "JFE installs an electric-arc furnace at Chiba facility". Stainless Steel World. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20190909051715/http://www.jfe-steel.co.jp:80/en/works/east. Archived from the original on 2019-09-09. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20210112024118/https://www.jfe-steel.co.jp/en/research/report/001/pdf/001-04.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-12. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  11. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20200725235105/https://www.steeltimesint.com/content-images/news/JFE.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-25. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20211230085848/https://www.jfe-steel.co.jp/en/works/west/environment.html. Archived from the original on 2021-12-30. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20220307141135/https://www.jfe-steel.co.jp/en/release/2020/201109_02.html. Archived from the original on 2022-03-07. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220307123856/https://www.jfe-holdings.co.jp/en/investor/library/group-report/2020/pdf/all.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-07. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. 15.0 15.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220722183713/https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/blast-furnace. Archived from the original on 2022-07-22. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. (PDF) https://www.jfe-holdings.co.jp/en/investor/library/group-report/2021/pdf/all_A4.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20221115041202/https://www.jfe-holdings.co.jp/en/investor/library/group-report/2022/pdf/all.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-11-15. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. 18.0 18.1 https://www.jfe-steel.co.jp/en/release/2023/230116.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. 19.0 19.1 https://www.aist.org/news/steel-news/2023/january/16-20-january-2023/jfe-restarts-rebuilt-blast-furnace. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. 20.0 20.1 https://www.refwin.com/news/NewsDetail/15377/1/JFESteelResumesOperatingNo.6BlastFurnaceatEastJapanWorks(Chiba);jsessionid=2F0C64873EC53B67A9AACC2B3F155241. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Additional data

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