1. Then along came the shredder and the electric-arc steel furnace, which gobbled scrap steel. 2. Direct reduced iron is a feedstock for furnaces used in steel mills and can be used as a substitute for scrap steel. 3. Drivers are required to sign load tickets to make sure that valuable scrap steel is not diverted to secret dumps. 4. Graphite electrodes are rods used in what are known as electric arc furnaces, which help melt scrap steel. 5. In addition to scrap steel, the plant will be designed to use the new types of ore-based scrap substitutes being developed by the industry. 6. Jackson said the bucket that killed Pasillas was used to collect debris like scrap steel and lumber. 7. Nucor benefited from price increases and lower prices for scrap steel, the material its minimills use to make steel. 8. Nucor, a major supplier of steel for construction, is the leading operator of steel minimills, which use scrap steel as their primary raw material. 9. Once the scrap steel has melted, it can be further refined. 10. Scrap steel is shipped to mills to be melted down for use in cars and construction beams, among other things. |
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