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To: JoeFromSidney

Most of the mini steel mills that use EAFS, electric arc furnaces, use 100% or nearly, scrap to produce steel.


63 posted on 10/04/2015 6:46:33 PM PDT by jkeith3213
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We had one electric furnace used solely to make silicon steel for transformer cores. Everything else was open hearth. This was before the basic oxygen process replaced open hearth.
70 posted on 10/07/2015 7:09:15 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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