The global crude steel industry is characterized by geographically focused production hotspots, integrated blast furnace and basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) systems, expanding electric arc furnace (EAF) capacities, and downstream industries that are strongly integrated, meaning that a disruption in a single furnace can spread rapidly through the regional and global steel market.
GIO Tracker provides daily plant-level data on crude steel production facilities, including capacity, production route (BF-BOF, EAF, IF), furnace type, feedstock, status, outage history, conversion projects, and retirement notifications for all major regions of production. Whether it is blast furnace relining plans, electric arc furnace restarts, or hydrogen-DRI start-ups, all information is recorded at the plant level and updated daily.
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Crude steel is the driving force behind the world industrial system. It is the key semi-finished product that directly enters flat steel, long products, structural steel, automotive steel, engineering steel, and energy steel.
Crude steel is produced in blast furnaces and basic oxygen converters, electric arc furnaces, and induction furnaces. It is the point of maximum transition from ironmaking to finished steel production. Any loss of capacity in crude steel production directly reduces slab, billet, bloom, and hot-rolled coil production.
The crude steel capacity is capital-intensive and technology-driven, especially in the case of integrated blast furnace and basic oxygen converter complexes. As such, supply losses are less likely to be quickly absorbed. Blast furnace stoppages, basic oxygen converter breakdowns, electric arc furnace power outages, hydrogen DRI start-up delays, or environmental stoppages have a rapid ripple effect through the construction, automotive, infrastructure, shipbuilding, machinery, and energy industries.
With the transition from blast furnace-based carbon steel to EAF-based scrap steel and hydrogen-based green steel production, the world supply pattern is undergoing a fundamental shift, with new drivers of volatility, conversion shutdowns, capacity swaps, and permanent retirements. Strategic Visibility Across Global Crude Steel Markets
The crude steel market is highly concentrated, capital-intensive, and in the midst of a fundamental structural shift. When blast furnaces are shut down for maintenance, relining, or conversion to electric arc furnace routes, market reactions can be nonlinear.
The emergence of green steel, including hydrogen-based DRI supplied to EAFs, adds another layer of structural risk. Capacity is not just growing or shrinking; it is also changing technology, emissions intensity, cost structure, and feedstock requirements.
Crude steel supply is concentrated, capital-intensive, and increasingly undergoing structural transformation. When blast furnaces are idled, relined, mothballed, retired, or converted to electric arc furnace routes, the market response can be nonlinear.
The rise of green steel, including hydrogen-based DRI feeding EAF units, adds another layer of structural transition risk. Capacity is not simply expanding or contracting; it is shifting technology, emissions profile, cost curve positioning, and feedstock dependency.
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Global Overview
The global crude steel production stood at ~1.85 billion tonnes in 2025, geographically distributed in the Asia-Pacific, European, North American, CIS, and emerging Middle Eastern regions. The production process is still dominated by BF-BOF steelmaking, although the EAF process’s market share is gradually increasing due to the acceleration of decarbonization.
The Global Crude Steel GIO Tracker provides plant-level operational insights into the production capacity of the major steel-producing countries. Based on the historical tracking data available since 2015, the tool currently tracks + facilities worldwide, integrating capacity, utilization, furnace-level tracking, shutdown notifications, restart alerts, conversion projects, and quantified production loss to identify supply flashpoints in the concentrated crude steel market.
Monitors 500+ facilities in the region, including integrated BF-BOF plants, EAF plants, and induction furnace groups. Tracks environmental shutdowns, policy-driven shutdowns, capacity swaps, seismic risks, monsoon-related disruptions, and power rationing incidents that impact regional and global steel supplies.
Offers end-to-end visibility into key BF-BOF and EAF steel producers in the U.S. and Canada. Tracks planned downtime, union work stoppages, energy outages, and low-carbon investments in the face of infrastructure-driven demand and steel reshoring-driven capacity expansion.
Tracks 130+ facilities facing mounting decarbonization challenges in key European steel-producing centers. Provides real-time alerts on energy rationing, blast furnace shutdowns, hydrogen DRI startups, scrap substitution trends, emissions compliance shutdowns, and structural blast furnace retirements constricting regional supply.
Monitors 90+ facilities accounting for ~6% of global capacity, including idlings driven by decarbonization efforts, maintenance turnarounds, EAF capacity expansions, and import dependency changes affecting domestic steel market dynamics.
Tracks 20+ facilities across export-focused and domestically-oriented producers. Provides daily market signals for hydroelectric power variability, port congestion, maintenance schedules, and currency-related production changes affecting regional steel market availability.
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Europe
North America
South America
Middle East & Africa
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Cambodia
China
India
Indonesia
Japan
Kazakhstan
Malaysia
Myanmar
New Zealand
North Korea
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Albania
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
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Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Latvia
Luxembourg
Moldova
Netherlands
North Macedonia
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Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
UK
Ukraine
Ukraine
Canada
Mexico
Trinidad and Tobago
USA
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Guatemala
Peru
Venezuela
Algeria
Angola
Bahrain
Egypt
Ethiopia
Ghana
Iran
Iraq
Kenya
Kuwait
Libya
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nigeria
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Syria
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
Zimbabwe