Kardemir is a Turkish steel producer. The name is a contraction of the

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''Karabük Demir Çelik Fabrikaları'', which means "Karabük Iron and Steel Works".

History

Its main plant is located at

Karabük Karabük is a town and the capital district of Karabük Province in the Black Sea Region, Black Sea region of Turkey. According to the 2009 census, population of the city is 108 167. The district covers an area of , and the town lies at an elevati ...

in the

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region of

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. Construction of the complex started in 1937 and finished in two years. Power plant was the first plant put into operation in 1939 and other plants became operative successionally within 2 years. Having functioned as a state-owned company for decades, Kardemir was privatized in 1995.

Pollution

Kardemir burns

coal in Turkey Coal supplies over a quarter of Turkey's primary energy. The heavily subsidised coal industry generates over a third of the country's electricity and emits a third of Turkey's greenhouse gases. Most coal mined in Turkey is lignite (brown ...

. As an integrated steelworks emissions are higher than steel produced at

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s. They also own Karabük coal-fired power station.

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estimates the plant emitted 3.7 million tonnes of

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in 2021, more

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than any other steelmaker in the country except

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 ...

Sport sponsorship

Kardemir is the main sponsor of Karabükspor.

External links

Kardemir official web site

References

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History

Pollution

Sport sponsorship

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