Sentence examples for scrap steel from inspiring English sources

One of the largest sources of scrap steel is the reprocessing of old automobile bodies.

About half of the steel used in new autos is scrap steel.

This involves converting its blast furnaces into electric arc furnaces that use scrap steel.

Scrap steel makes up a significant percentage of the feed to electric arc and basic oxygen furnaces.

All the material on the site apart from scrap steel, which is removed to be recycled elsewhere, is being reused.

Progress Rail, based in Albertville, Ala., repairs railroad cars, locomotives and tracks and also sells scrap steel.

It is puzzling, therefore, that usage of scrap steel in 2013 was still only around 580m tonnes.

With demand for steel growing briskly in developing countries, prices of scrap steel have doubled over the past year.

Even with Beijing's efforts to cool economic growth, imports of scrap steel may double again by the end of 2005.

Scrap steel is shipped to mills to be melted down for use in cars and construction beams, among other things.

But Nucor's costs will be rising because scrap steel prices are rising due to tremendous demand for scrap from China.