Chow Steel Kabinburi Steel Plant — Thailand

Chow Steel Kabinburi Steel Plant is a steel plant in Thailand. Its listed capacity is 1,460,000 t of steel. Steel plants burn coal in blast furnaces or use electric arcs to melt scrap; in both cases the molten metal must be kept above 1,500°C and transferred through extensive hot piping and vessels. By capacity it ranks #1 among 3 steel plants in Thailand. It emits about 1,646,539 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 3.4% of the CO₂e from the 37 facilities in Thailand that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 22% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-42741808.

In context: how this facility compares

At 1,460,000 t of steel, Chow Steel Kabinburi Steel Plant is well above the median steel plant in Thailand (805,000 t of steel). Subsector: iron-and-steel. As steel plant, it requires high process heat (typically 800–1500°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Steel plants burn coal in blast furnaces or use electric arcs to melt scrap; in both cases the molten metal must be kept above 1,500°C and transferred through extensive hot piping and vessels.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 1,646,539 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest steel plants in Thailand

Listed capacity (t of steel), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Parent company

Chow Steel Industries Public Company Limited Global Energy Monitor
Parent company per Global Energy Monitor; the operator itself is not stated in the source dataset.

Local climate

Chow Steel Kabinburi Steel Plant sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 14.1°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1224 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.94× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

The #1 largest of 3 steel plants in Thailand by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Double A (1991) Public Company Limited - Thatoom Mills · Pulp & Paper Mill · 104,431 t CO₂
• Double A (1991) Public Company Limited - Laem Khao Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 248,646 t CO₂
• TPI Polene Mittaphap Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 4,529,439 t CO₂
• Siam City Thap Kwang 2 Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,906,962 t CO₂
• Siam City Thap Kwang 1 Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 1,611,203 t CO₂
• Siam City Thap Kwang 3 Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 3,467,204 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 14.07423, 101.84239. View on OpenStreetMap.

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