Kehler Baden Steel Works

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Kehler Baden Steel Works (Badische Stahlwerke), also known as BSW, Süddeutsche Drahtververarbeitung-GmbH (predecessor), is a steel plant in Kehl am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Kehl am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany:

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  • Location: Graudenzer Strasse 45, 77694 Kehl am Rhein, Germany
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 48.595058, 7.821633 (exact)

Background

Steel production at Kehler Baden Steel Works is scrap-based.[1]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Start date Workforce size
1955[2] 850[3]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
Südwest Beteiligungen GmbH 4298173051 E100001016239 Badische Stahlwerke GmbH[4] 4296443547 E100000130777

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Main production equipment
semi-finished, finished rolled[5] billet, wire rod, rebar, bar[5] building and infrastructure[5] 2024[6] 2024[6] EAF

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

1Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status1 Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 2500[7] 2500[7]

Table 5: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year EAF production Other/unknown steel production
2019 unknown unknown
2020 unknown unknown
2021 unknown unknown
2022 unknown unknown
2023 unknown

Unit Details

Table 6: Electric Arc Furnace Details

Unit name Status Current capacity (ttpa)
unknown EAF (1) operating[8] 1250[7]
unknown EAF (2) operating[8] 1250[7]

Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details

Unit name Scrap-based % scrap % DRI % HBI % sponge iron (unknown if DRI or HBI) % basic/merchant pig iron % granulated pig iron % pig iron (unknown if basic/merchant or granulated % other iron
unknown EAF (1) yes[9] 100.00[9] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
unknown EAF (2) yes[9] 100.00[9] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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References

  1. Welcome to the steel mill of the future, Kehler Group, Retrieved on: Jul. 6, 2020
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20220814032113/https://www.bsw-kehl.de/?lang=en. Archived from the original on 2022-08-14. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20220519020823/https://www.bsw-kehl.de/company/?lang=en. Archived from the original on 2022-05-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20211105071852/https://www.bsw-kehl.de/. Archived from the original on 2021-11-05. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220519012432/https://www.bsw-kehl.de/produkte/. Archived from the original on 2022-05-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. 6.0 6.1 https://bsw-kehl.de/umweltschutz/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Map of EU steel production sites" (PDF). Eurofer. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-18.
  8. 8.0 8.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240905162138/https://bsw-kehl.de/aktuelles-news/. Archived from the original on 2024-09-05. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240701040820/https://bsw-kehl.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/unternehmen/50-Jahre-Stahl-aus-Kehl-kl.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-07-01. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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