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EAF production

Steel Data Room: Share of crude steel production through BOF route 90% in China, 30% in the US

November 9, 2021

If you are following the current debate about steelmaking carbon emissions, you might want to remind yourselves about who’s producing steel through the BOF route and who’s producing it through the EAF route. The Steel Data Room’s dataset “World Steel Association Steel Statistical Yearbook” makes that easy. Let’s look at the world’s top five steelmaking […]

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What’s up with the Italian steel industry?

May 19, 2015

Ciao nerds di acciaio! You might be interested to know that the main exhibition of the Italian steel industry Made in Steel is taking place in Milan this Wednesday through Friday (May 20-22, 2015), right beside the location of the world Expo. All the largest Italian steelmakers will be present, including flat producers Ilva and Arvedi, […]

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Scrap consumption calculations

December 13, 2007

This file – Scrap use Calculations – is a little old, but it’s from the Steel Recycling Institute and offers one way of calculating both scrap use and recycled content in steelmaking by both EAF and BOF routes. There are good explanations of scrap terms particularly home, prompt etc.  

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