[TheForge] recycled steel- spinoff question

Thu Feb 27 12:09:00 2003

In a message dated 2/27/2003 10:19:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> How much of the new steel that we use is made from recycled steel?  Is any
> of the steel in the more specialty alloys, like the 1006 sheet that I use,
> recycled?  Is it mainly the standard mild steel that is made from recycled
> steel?

It is far less expensive to use recycled steel to produce new steel than to 
process from ore, and is the preferred method.  When you say "specialty 
alloys", do you mean "low carbon alloys"?  The price today of segregated 
scrap steel is so low that other processes like direct reduction cant come 
close.  Almost all stainless is produced from scrap.  The price of getting 
the carbon down to a .06 that you reference may be lower using BOF furnaces, 
I'm not sure, as there isn't much 1006 made in bar form these days.  Do you 
get certifications of chemistry when you purchase the 1006?  What does it 
show as the Carbon percentage? 
Mike Schermerhorn

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