This is a list of the largest steel-producing companies in the world mostly based on the list by the

World Steel Association World Steel Association, abbreviated as worldsteel, is the international industry association for the iron and steel sector. The association is one of the largest and most dynamic industry associations in the world, with members in every major s ...

. The list ranks steelmakers by volume of steel production in millions of tons over time and includes all steelmakers with production over 10 million in 2021. The World Steel Association features a list from its members every year. Due to mergers, year-to-year figures for some producers are not comparable. Not all steel is the same. Some steel is more valuable than other steel, so the volume is not the same as turnover. Some of the world's leading steel producers include China Baowu Group and

ArcelorMittal ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourg-based multinational steel manufacturing corporation, headquartered in Luxembourg City. It is ranked second on the list of steel producers behind Baowu, and had an annual crude steel production of 58 millio ...

. Notable players from China are HBIS Group,

Ansteel Group Anshan Iron and Steel Group Corporation (Ansteel Group in short; less popularly Angang Group) is a Chinese state-owned steel maker. The corporation is under the supervision of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the Sta ...

, and Shagang Group.In

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

Tata Steel Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, with its primary operations based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Formerly known as Tata Iron and Steel ...

JSW Steel JSW Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel producer based in Mumbai and is a flagship company of the JSW Group. After the merger of Bhushan Power & Steel, Ispat Steel and Jindal Vijayanagar Steel Limited, JSW Steel became India's sec ...

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and

Jindal Steel and Power Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) is an Indian steel company based in New Delhi. JSPL is a part of OP Jindal Group. In terms of tonnage, it is the third-largest private steel producer in India and the only private player in India to produ ...

are key players in the

steel industry Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that demonstrates improved mechanical properties compared to the pure form of iron. Due to steel's high elastic modulus, yield strength, fracture strength and low raw material cost, steel is one of the ...

. Japan's

Nippon Steel Corporation (previously known as Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal until 2019) is Japan's largest steelmaker, headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company has four business segments, which are steelmaking, engineering, chemicals, and systems solu ...

is renowned for quality. POSCO Holdings from South Korea is also a significant contributor. Steelmakers from multiple different countries, such as

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

, the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

, the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

and the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

, are included in the list associated with their volumes used as figures.

Top producers by volume

Other steel producers

Acerinox Acerinox, S.A. (), headquartered in Madrid, is a manufacturer of steel and related products. In 2022, it was the 4th largest producer of stainless steel worldwide. It has operations in Europe, Asia, the U.S., and South Africa. It has fifteen facto ...

, Spain * Aichi Steel Corporation, Japan *

Aisha Steel Mills Aisha Steel Mills Limited (ASML) () is a Karachi-based steel manufacturing company with production capacity of 220,000 metric tons per year. It is owned by Arif Habib Group. Its plant is located at Bin Qasim, Karachi and produces at a capacity ...

, Pakistan * Algerian Qatari Steel company, Algeria *

Algoma Steel Algoma Steel Inc. (formerly The Algoma Steel Corporation, Limited; Essar Steel Algoma) is an integrated steel mill, primary steel producer located on the St. Marys River (Michigan-Ontario), St. Marys River in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. ...

, Canada *

Allegheny Technologies ATI Inc. (previously Allegheny Technologies Incorporated) is an American producer of specialty materials headquartered in Dallas, Texas. ATI produces metals including titanium and titanium alloys, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, stainles ...

, United States * Acerias Paz del Rio, Colombia *

Altos Hornos y Acerías de Corral The Altos Hornos y Acerías de Corral was a major iron and steel industry located at the port of Corral, Chile, Corral in Chile. The industry operated using charcoal. The remains of the industry were bought up in 1926 by Valdivian entrepreneurs w ...

, Chile * Angang Steel Company Limited, China * Anyang Steel, China *

Aperam Aperam S.A. is a company listed on the Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Madrid and Luxembourg stock exchanges and with facilities in Brazil, Belgium and France, which concentrates on the production of stainless steel and speciality steel. It was spu ...

, Luxembourg * Arab Steel Company, Saudi Arabia *

Arrium Arrium was an Australian mining and materials company, employing nearly 10,000 workers before going into voluntary administration in 2016 with debts of more than $2 billion. In 2017 it was acquired by British-owned Liberty House Group. H ...

, Australia * Arvedi, Italy * Baku Steel Company, Azerbaijan *

BlueScope BlueScope Steel Limited is an Australian flat product steel producer that was spun-off from BHP Billiton in 2002. History BlueScope was formed when BHP Billiton spun-off its steel assets on 15 July 2002 as BHP Steel. It was renamed BlueS ...

, Australia *

Böhler Böhler was an Austrian trader for steel. It was founded in 1870 by the brothers Albert and Emil Böhler. Following World War II, the company was nationalized in 1946. It was merged with other Austrian steel companies to form the ''VÖEST-Alpine ...

, Austria * British Steel Ltd, United Kingdom *

BSRM The Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills, Tradename: BSRM Steels Limited, commonly known as BSRM, is a Bangladeshi steelmaking, steel manufacturing company based in Chittagong. It is the largest construction steel manufacturer company in Bangladesh. ...

, Bangladesh * Byelorussian Steel Works, Belarus *

Carpenter Technology Corporation Carpenter Technology Corporation develops, manufactures, and distributes stainless steels and corrosion-resistant nickel, copper and titanium alloys as well as powdered alloys for 3D additive manufacturing. In fiscal year 2018, the company's reve ...

, United States * Celsa Group, Spain *

Commercial Metals Company Commercial Metals Company (CMC) is a company that produces rebar and related construction materi headquartered in Irving, Texas. Along with Nucor, it is one of two primary suppliers of steel used to reinforce concrete in buildings, bridges, ro ...

, United States *

Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) is the largest fully integrated steel producer in Brazil and one of the largest in Latin America in terms of crude steel production.

, Brazil *

Crucible Industries Crucible Industries, commonly known as Crucible, was an American company which developed and manufactured specialty steels, and was the sole producer of a line of powder metallurgy, sintered steels known as Crucible Particle Metallurgy (CPM) steel ...

, United States * De Kok Staalbouw, Netherlands * Dexin Steel, Indonesia * Donghai Special Steel, China *

Dongkuk Steel Dongkuk Steel Mill Co, Ltd. () is a steel company with its headquarters in the city of Seoul, South Korea. Founded on 7 July 1951, its manufacturing plants are located in Pohang, Incheon, Dangjin, and Busan. Its main products are steel plates mai ...

, South Korea * Duplex Steel & Engineering Co, India *

Esfahan Steel Company Esfahan Steel Company (, ''Sherkat-e Zob Āhan-e Esfahān''), formerly known as Esfahan Aryamehr Steel Company () prior to 1979 Revolution, opened in late 1960s, based close to the cities of Fooladshahr and Zarrinshahr, Esfahan Province. It is ...

, Iran *

Erdemir Ereğli Demir ve Çelik Fabrikaları T.A.Ş. is a Turkish steel producer. The name is a contraction of the Turkish language ''Ereğli Demir ve Çelik Fabrikaları'', which means "Ereğli Iron and Steel Factories". Erdemir occupies the 43rd place ...

, Turkey *

Eskoleia Stål Eskoleia Stål is a manufacturing company located in Kongsvinger, Norway. It was formerly known under several names; Norsk Gjærde- og Metaldukfabrik for the longest period; and was located in Oslo. History It was founded on 15 February 1910 as ...

, Norway *

Essar Steel Essar Steel was a common name of the steel manufacturing companies of the Essar Group of Companies. Its main subsidiary was Essar Steel India Limited, a fully integrated flat carbon steel manufacturer based in Mumbai, which owned and operated a ...

, India * EZDK, Egypt * Handan Zongheng Iron and Steel, China *

Illich Steel and Iron Works Illich Iron & Steel Works ( Ukrainian: Маріу́польський металургі́йний комбіна́т і́мені Ілліча́ – literally "Mariupol Metallurgical Plant named after Illich") is the second largest metallurgic ...

, Ukraine *

Ilva (company) ILVA S.p.A. is an Italian steel company in Taranto that for much of the 20th century was Italy's largest steel producer and one of the largest in Europe. In June 2017, Arcelor Mittal became the chief shareholder. In 2020, the company returned ...

, Italy *

İsdemir İsdemir is a Turkish steel producer located in Payas, Hatay Province on the Mediterranean coast. The name is a contraction of the Turkish language ''İskenderun Demir ve Çelik A.Ş.'', which means "İskenderun Iron and Steel CO". İsdemir is cu ...

, Turkey * International Steels Limited, Pakistan * ISD Corporation, UkraineMetalBulletin: Top steelmakers 2011
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Ittefaq Group Ittefaq Foundries, commonly known as Ittefaq Group, was a Pakistani integrated steel producer headquartered in Lahore. It was founded in 1951 by the Sharif family. At its peak, it was a manufacturer of diesel engines up to 200 hp, lathes, road ...

, Pakistan * Jacquet Metal Service SA, France *

Japan Steel Works The is a steel manufacturer founded in Muroran, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1907. History Japan Steel Works was set up with investment from British firms Vickers, Armstrong Whitworth and Mitsui. During World War II, they manufactured what was then t ...

, Japan *

, India * Jinxi Iron and Steel, China * , China *

Julien Inc. Julien Inc. is a stainless steel fabrication company. Through its residential, commercial and industrial subcontracting divisions, Julien has completed projects in 13 countries in a wide range of sectors, including transport, electrical and househ ...

, Canada *

Kobe Steel Kobe Steel, Ltd. (株式会社神戸製鋼所, ''Kabushiki gaisha Kōbe Seikō-sho'') is a major Japanese steel manufacturer headquartered in Chūō-ku, Kobe. Kobelco is the unified brand name of the Kobe Steel Group. Kobe Steel has the low ...

, Japan *

Krakatau Steel PT Krakatau Steel (Persero) Tbk (''Krakatau Steel Company Limited'') is the largest steel maker in Indonesia, headquartered in Cilegon, Banten. The factory is set on a plot in the western end of Banten and adjacent to the Sunda Strait, and wh ...

, Indonesia *

Kardemir Kardemir is a Turkish steel producer. The name is a contraction of the Turkish language ''Karabük Demir Çelik Fabrikaları'', which means "Karabük Iron and Steel Works". History Its main plant is located at Karabük in the Black Sea region of ...

, Turkey * Libyan Iron and Steel Company, Libya *

Liberty Steel Group Liberty Steel Group Holdings UK Ltd (LSG), which is also referred to as Liberty House or Liberty House UK, is a British industrial and metals company founded in the United Kingdom in 1992 by industrialist Sanjeev Gupta. It is headquartered in ...

, UK * Duferco Danish Steel, Denmark * Mahindra Ugine Steel, India * Malaysia Steel Works (KL) Bhd, Malaysia *

Marcegaglia Marcegaglia is an Italian corporation founded in 1959 by Steno Marcegaglia, operating in the European and worldwide steel market. History Origins and Growth, in Italy and in the World The story of the Marcegaglia Group began in 1959 in Ita ...

, Italy * Maghreb Steel, Morocco *

Mechel Mechel () is one of Russia's mining and metals companies, comprising producers of coal, iron ore in concentrate, steel, rolled steel products. Headquartered in Moscow, it sells its products in Russia and overseas, and is formally known as ''Public ...

, Russia * Mendelson Infrastructures & Industries Ltd, Israel *

Metaldom Complejo Metalúrgico Dominicano, S. A. (METALDOM) is the largest steel manufacturer in the Dominican Republic, with an annual capacity of 1 million tons. History The company was founded in 1967. In October 2014, Metaldom merged with Industrias ...

, Dominican Republic *

Metalloinvest Metalloinvest Management Company LLC () is a Russian mining and metallurgy company specializing in the manufacture of steel. It was founded in 1999 and is composed of a mining division (Lebedinsky GOK and Mikhailovsky GOK) and a steel division ( ...

, Russia * Midalia Steel, Australia * Mitsui & Co., Japan *

MMX Mineração MMX is the mining company of the EBX Group founded in 2005. It is engaged in the extraction, beneficiation and sale of iron ore and minerals in Brazil and Chile. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2016, and it is part of the current investigati ...

, Brazil *

MMK-Atakaş Metallurgy The MMK Metallurgy () is a multi-national steelmaking company established 2007 in Iskenderun, southern Turkey. Company's main plant, located in Dörtyol, began production in 2011 after three years of construction time. The total investment is wo ...

, Turkey *

Mobarakeh Steel Company Mobarakeh Steel Company (MSC, , Foolad Mobarakeh) is a private Iranian steel company, located 65 km south west of Esfahan, near the city of Mobarakeh, Esfahan Province, Iran. It is the largest steel maker of MENA (Middle East & Northern Af ...

, Iran *

Mostostal Mostostal is a steel construction group of companies based in Warsaw, Poland, part of one of the largest industrial conglomerate companies in Poland. The company produces a wide range of steel industrial structures. Projects have included chemica ...

, Poland *

Nisshin Steel (previously known as Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal until 2019) is Japan's largest steelmaker, headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company has four business segments, which are steelmaking, engineering, chemicals, and systems solu ...

, Japan * Olympic Steel, United States *

Outokumpu Outokumpu Oyj is a group of international companies headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with 10,600 employees in more than 30 countries. Outokumpu is the largest producer of stainless steel in Europe and the second largest producer in the Americ ...

, Finland *

Pakistan Steel Mills The Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation, colloquially referred to as ''Pak Steel'', is a Pakistani state-owned company that produces long-rolled steel and heavy metal products in the country. Headquartered in Karachi, Sindh, the PSMC is currently ...

, Pakistan *

Panzhihua Iron and Steel Panzhihua Iron and Steel (Group) Company Limited, or Pangang, is the state-owned enterprise in Panzhihua, Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River t ...

, China * Pedro Vasena e Hijos, Argentina *

Qatar Steel Qatar Steel (formerly QASCO) was formed in 1974 as the first integrated steel plant in the Eastern Arabia region. Commercial production commenced in 1978 with the company becoming wholly owned by Industries Qatar in 2003. Business organization Pl ...

, Qatar *

Radius Recycling Radius Recycling, Inc., is a scrap recycling and steel manufacturing company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The company operates auto parts recycling, metal recycling, and steel manufacturing with locations in 26 states and two Canadian provi ...

, United States *

Rautaruukki Rautaruukki Oyj, using the marketing name Ruukki, is a Finnish company, headquartered in Helsinki, which manufactures and supplies metal-based components and systems to the construction and engineering industries. In 2014 Swedish SSAB bought Ru ...

, Finland * Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., United States * Sahaviriya Steel Industries, Thailand *

Salzgitter AG Salzgitter AG is a German company, one of the largest steel producers in Europe with an annual output of around seven million tonnes. With over 100 subsidiaries and associated companies, the Group is structured in four business units – Stee ...

, Germany * SeAH Beestel, South Korea *

Sheffield Forgemasters Sheffield Forgemasters is a British heavy engineering firm that is based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The state-owned company specialises in the production of large bespoke steel castings and forgings, as well as standard rolls, ing ...

, United Kingdom * Siam Yamato Steel, Thailand * SIDERPERU, Peru *

Sidetur Siderúrgica del Turbio S.A. (Sidetur) was a subsidiary of Siderúrgica de Venezuela S.A. (Sivensa), the biggest wholly private Venezuelan steel corporation. Their main products are rebars, bars, beams, angles and flats. Sidetur develops their expo ...

, Venezuela *

Sonasid Sonasid () is a Moroccan steel manufacturing company headquartered in Casablanca. It specializes in the production of steel products primarily used in construction, including rebar and wire rod. Sonasid operates industrial plants in Nador and Jo ...

, Morocco *

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, earlier Svenskt Stål AB (), is a Swedish company, formed in 1978, that spec ...

, Sweden *

Stelco Stelco Holdings Inc. (known as U.S. Steel Canada from 2007 to 2016) is a Canadian steel company based in Hamilton, Ontario. Stelco was founded in 1910 by the amalgamation of several smaller firms. It continued on for almost 100 years until it ...

, Canada * Swiss Steel Holding, Switzerland * Tangshan Guofeng Iron and Steel, China *

Tenaris Tenaris S.A., organized in Luxembourg, is a manufacturer and supplier of steel pipes and related services for the petroleum industry. The company produces and ships over 4 million tons of pipes annually. In 2023, 53% of the company's sales wer ...

, Luxembourg *

Ternium Ternium S.A. is a manufacturer of flat and long steel products with production centers in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and the United States. Ternium owns a 51.5% interest in Usiminas of Brazil. The company has an annual produ ...

- Hylsa and Imsa in Mexico, Siderar in Argentina *

Timken Company The Timken Company is a global manufacturer of bearings and power transmission products. Timken operates from 42 countries. Company history In 1898, Henry Timken obtained a patent for an improved tapered roller bearing, and in 1899 incorpo ...

, United States * Tosyali Algeria, Algeria * Triton Alloys Inc, India * Tuwairqi Steel Mills, Pakistan *

Usiminas Usiminas is one of the largest producers of steel in the Americas, with major steel mills in Brazil with a total capacity of 9.5 million metric tons of steel per year. The company accounts for 28% of total steel output in Brazil. Usiminas has an ...

, Brazil *

Vallourec Vallourec S.A. is a multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Meudon, France. Vallourec specializes in hot rolled seamless steel tubes, expandable tubular technology, automotive parts, and stainless steel, which it provides to ene ...

, France *

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Visakhapatnam (; formerly known as Vizagapatam, and also referred to as Vizag, Visakha, and Waltair) is the largest and most populous metropolitan city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is between the Eastern Ghats and the coast of t ...

, India *

Voestalpine Voestalpine AG – stylized as voestalpine – is an Austrian steel-based technology and capital goods group based in Linz, Austria. The company is active in steel, automotive, railway systems, profilform and tool steel industries. As of 201 ...

, Austria *

Votorantim Siderurgia Votorantim Siderurgia is a steel company created in 2008 by Brazilian conglomerate Votorantim Group. At the time it was created, the company had 5,300 employees and operations in Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia and installed capacity of 2.45 mill ...

, Brazil * West Yorkshire Steel, UK

Steel producers merged with other companies, split into other companies or no longer operational

AK Steel AK Steel Holdings Corporation was an American steelmaking company headquartered in West Chester Township, Ohio. The company, whose name was derived from the initials of Armco, its predecessor company, and Kawasaki Steel Corporation, was acquir ...

(bought by

Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CCI, formerly Cliffs Natural Resources) is an American steel manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio. They specialize in the mining, beneficiation, and pelletizing of iron ore, as well as steelmaking, including stamping a ...

) *

(assets bought by

in April 2007) *

Altos Hornos de México Altos Hornos de México, S.A.B. de C.V. (AHMSA) is a steel plant in Mexico. It has corporate offices in Monclova, Coahuila, in the center of the Mexican state of Coahuila, 155 miles from the United States border. History Teódulo Flores Calde ...

, (defunct in 2024) *

Arbed The Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange ( French; literally "United Steelworks of Burbach-Eich-Dudelange"), better known by its acronym ARBED, was a major Luxembourg-based steel- and iron-producing company. Created in 1911 after the merg ...

(merged in 2002 forming Arcelor) *

Arcelor Arcelor S.A. was the world's largest steel producer in terms of turnover and the second largest in terms of steel output, with a turnover of €30.2 billion and shipments of 45 million metric tons of steel in 2004. The company was created in 2002 ...

(merged with Mittal forming ArcelorMittal) *

Baosteel Group China Baowu Steel Group Corp., Ltd., commonly known as Baowu, is a state-owned iron and steel company headquartered in the Baosteel Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China. The company was formed by Baosteel Group absorbing its smaller state-owned p ...

(merged with Wuhan Group forming China Baowu Steel Group) *

Benxi Steel Group Benxi Steel Group Corp., Ltd. known as Benxi Steel Group (or Bengang in China) is a Chinese holding company based in Benxi, Liaoning Province, for two steel making group. The company was formed in 2010 as the holding company for Benxi Iron and S ...

(merged with Ansteel Group) *

Bethlehem Steel The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was an American steelmaking company headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Until its closure in 2003, it was one of the world's largest steel-producing and shipbuilding companies. At the height of its success ...

(assets bought by ISG in 2003. ISG merged with Mittal, now ArcelorMittal) * (bankrupted in 2016) *

British Steel Corporation British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and cultur ...

formed in 1967 when steel was nationalised in the UK. Privatised again in 1988. *

British Steel plc British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and cultur ...

(merged with Koninklijke Hoogovens (NL) in 1999 to form Corus, now Tata Steel) *

Carnegie Steel Company Carnegie Steel Company was a steel-producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century. The company was formed in ...

(sold to U.S. Steel in 1901) *

Cockerill-Sambre Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing, on the river Meuse, and in Charleroi, on the river Sambre. The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups – SA Cocke ...

(acquired by

Usinor Usinor was a French steel making group formed in 1948. The group was merged with Sacilor in 1986, becoming Usinor-Sacilor and was privatised in 1995, and renamed Usinor in 1997. In 2001 it merged with Arbed (Luxembourg) and Aceralia (Spain) to ...

in 1998, which became part of Arcelor in 2002, now ArcelorMittal) *

Corus Group Corus may refer to: Places * Çörüş, Gazipaşa, a village in Antalya Province, Turkey Facilities and structures * Corus Quay, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; an office tower Fictional locations * Corus, a fictional world that is the setting for the ...

(acquired by Tata Steel in 2007) *

Dofasco ArcelorMittal Dofasco, a subsidiary of ArcelorMittal, is a steel company based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dofasco is a standalone subsidiary of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest integrated steel producer. History Clifton and Frank A. Sherman ...

Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a 2021 Canadian census, population of 569,353 (2021), and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which encompasses ...

, Canada (acquired by Arcelor, now ArcelorMittal) *

Falck Group Falck Group is an Italian company located in Sesto San Giovanni. It was founded in 1906 and is one of the oldest companies in the steel industry. In the 1990s it turned to the production of energy from Renewable resource, renewable sources. It w ...

(turned the production to

renewable energy Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind pow ...

with

Falck Renewables Renantis S.p.A. is a renewable energy Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable ...

) *

Gruppo Riva Riva Group is a major Italian steel producer. Riva is a privately held company, the whole shareholders' equity being held by the Riva family. As of 2022, it ranks 69th in the global ranking of steel producers compiled by the World Steel Associati ...

(split into ILVA and Riva Forni Electtrici in 2013) * Hoesch Stahl AG (acquired by

ThyssenKrupp ThyssenKrupp AG (, ; stylized as thyssenkrupp) is a German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate. It resulted from the 1999 merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp and has its operational headquarters in Duisburg and E ...

) *

Inland Steel Company The Inland Steel Company was an American steel company active from 1893 until its acquisition in 1998 by Ispat International (later Mittal Steel Company). Originally based in East Chicago, Indiana, it was eventually headquartered in Chicago at t ...

(acquired by Ispat International became Mittal, now ArcelorMittal) *

International Steel Group International Steel Group Inc. (ISG), headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, was one the largest integrated steel producers in North America. It had annual raw steel production capability of 23 million net tons. In April 2005, the company was acquired ...

(merged with Mittal, now ArcelorMittal) *

Jones and Laughlin Steel Company The Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, also known as J&L Steel or simply as J&L, was an American steel and iron manufacturer that operated from 1852 until 1968. The enterprise began as the American Iron Company, founded in 1852 by Bernard La ...

(acquired by

Ling-Temco-Vought Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) was a large American conglomerate which existed from 1961 to 2001. At its peak, it was involved in aerospace, airlines, electronics, steel manufacturing, sporting goods, meat packing, car rentals, and pharmaceuticals, ...

, renamed LTV Steel, acquired by ISG) *

Koninklijke Hoogovens Koninklijke Hoogovens known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (KNHS) until 1996 or informally Hoogovens. is a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. Since 2010, the plant is named Tata Steel IJmuiden. The steelworks based i ...

(merged with British Steel (UK) in 1999 to form Corus, now Tata Steel) *

Krupp Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp (formerly Fried. Krupp AG and Friedrich Krupp GmbH), trade name, trading as Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century as well as Germany's premier weapons manufacturer dur ...

(merged with Thyssen to form ThyssenKrupp in 1999) * Kunming Steel, China (merged into

China Baowu Steel Group China Baowu Steel Group Corp., Ltd., commonly known as Baowu, is a state-owned iron and steel company headquartered in the Baosteel Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China. The company was formed by Baosteel Group absorbing its smaller state-owned p ...

) *

Lackawanna Steel Company The Lackawanna Steel Company was an American steel manufacturing company that existed as an independent company from 1840 to 1922, and as a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel company from 1922 to 1983. Founded by the Scranton family, it was once ...

(acquired by

in 1922, plants closed in 1982) * Laiwu Steel (merged into Shandong Iron and Steel Group) *

Lone Star Steel Company Lone Star Steel Company was a company that operated a plant that produced steel in Lone Star, Texas. It specialized in making tubular steel with outer diameters ranging from 16 inches to 1.415 inches. In 2007, it was acquired by U.S. Steel for $2 ...

(acquired by U.S. Steel in 2007) * Maanshan Iron & Steel (acquired by China Baowu in 2019) *

Mittal Steel Company Mittal Steel Company N.V., incorporated in the Netherlands and headquartered in the United Kingdom, was a steel producer. In 2006, it produced 110.5 million tonnes of steel and had annual production capacity of 138 million tons of steel. In August ...

(merged with Arcelor forming ArcelorMittal) *

National Steel Corporation The National Steel Corporation (1929–2003) was a major American steel producer. It was founded on October 1, 1929 through a merger arranged by Weirton Steel with the new Great Lakes Steel Corporation, which was then in the process of construc ...

(acquired by U.S. Steel in 2003) * Northwestern Steel and Wire (reorganized and operating as Sterling Steel Company) * Pingxiang Iron and Steel (merged with Jiujiang Steel forming Fangda Steel) *

Republic Steel Republic Steel is a Mexican steel manufacturer that was once America’s third largest steel producer. It was founded as the Republic Iron and Steel Company in Youngstown, Ohio in 1899. After rising to prominence during the early 20th Century, ...

(merged into LTV Steel, acquired by ISG, merged with Mittal, now ArcelorMittal) * Rouge Steel (formerly owned by

Ford Motor Corporation Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobil ...

; acquired by

Severstal Severstal () is a Russian company mainly operating in the steel and mining industry, headquartered in Cherepovets. Severstal is listed on the Moscow Exchange and LSE and is the largest steel company in Russia. The company is majority-owned and ...

in 2004) *

Steel Company of Wales The Steel Company of Wales Ltd was a Welsh steel and tinplate producer. It was formed in 1947 and absorbed into British Steel Corporation in 1967, British Steel then merged with Hoogovens and became Corus UK Limited. The business now forms par ...

(absorbed into

in 1967) *

Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd. formerly Taiyuan Iron & Steel Corporation (TISCO), also known as Taigang Group is a Chinese steel maker based in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. The company was the parent of Taigang Stainless Steel Co., Ltd ...

(merged into

) * Timken (split to form TimkenSteel Corporation in 2014) * Thyssen (merged with

to form ThyssenKrupp in 1999) *

Weirton Steel Weirton Steel Corporation was a steel production company founded by Ernest T. Weir in West Virginia in 1909. It was at one time one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products. History Weirton Steel Corporation was an integrated ste ...

(acquired by ISG, which merged with Mittal, now ArcelorMittal) *

Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation (WISCO) is a Chinese state-owned enterprise. It started to operate in 1958 in Qingshan District, Wuhan, Qingshan, Wuhan, Hubei, China. It was administered by State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration C ...

(merged with Baosteel forming China Baowu Steel Group) *

Youngstown Sheet and Tube The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, based in Youngstown, Ohio, was an American steel manufacturer. Officially, the company was created on November 23, 1900, when Articles of Incorporation of the Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company were fi ...

(acquired by Jones and Laughlin Steel Company ca. 1977)

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