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February 2019 | Steel Raw Materials


Scrap-based steelmaking is becoming more cost-efficient than hot metal production: Latest Analysis


Vale has flagged that this year’s shut-downs are to affect about 11 mtpy pellet production as a result of the dam decommissioning plan.

Scrap-based steelmaking is becoming more cost-efficient than hot metal production Quarterly intelligence from our Steel Cost Service has revealed that an average integrated mill had crude steel production costs exceeding those at an average mini- mill in the fourth quarter of 2018, for the first time since at least 2010. And while developments in some countries like Japan were in tandem with the global trend, the...

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