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Global Electric Furnace Steelmaking Ratio Has Steadily Rebounded

Global Electric Furnace Steelmaking Ratio Has Steadily Rebounded
From the production process point of view, in terms of production statistics, more than 70% of the world’s crude steel is smelted by the blast furnace-converter long process, and most of the rest is electric furnace smelting. The global electric furnace steelmaking ratio gradually decreased from a high point of 33.9% in 2000 to 24.2% in 2017, and it has steadily rebounded to 28.8% last year. It is worth mentioning that in 2018, China’s electric furnace steel production accounted for 11.6%, which was the fourth consecutive year of increase. While the United States and Japan’s electric furnace steel production ratio decreased compared with 2017. The share of electric furnace steel production in the United States decreased slightly from 68.4% in 2017 to 68.0%, and the proportion of Japanese electric furnace steel production decreased from 28% in 2017 to 25%. Our main products include S355 steel square bar.
In fact, from the distribution of electric steelmaking, Asian long-flow steelmaking still dominates. If Asia is removed, in the global steelmaking, electric steelmaking and converter steelmaking are “equal to the world”. Glory Steel is specialized in S355 steel square bar production.
According to data released by the World Steel Association, the output of global direct reduced iron is increasing year by year, and the output is close to 100 million tons. In 2018, global direct reduced iron production has reached 99.8 million tons, an increase of 11 million tons from 2017. In recent years, as the steel market has warmed up, scrap resources have been in a state of world shortage, and direct reduced iron and hot briquetted iron are the best alternatives to scrap. Due to the difference in distribution and cost of reducing agent resources (natural gas) around the world, the distribution of direct reduced iron presents a strong geographical feature. In terms of distribution, the major producers of direct reduced iron in the world are concentrated in the Middle East represented by Iran. The direct reduction iron production in the Middle East has reached more than 40 million tons, accounting for nearly half of the world. In addition, India’s direct reduced iron production is also considerable, reaching more than 30 million tons in 2018. According to previous forecasts of the World Steel Association, as the output of electric steelmaking continues to increase, the global direct reduced iron production will reach 140 million tons by 2025.
From the perspective of global scrap import and export, the total volume of scrap trade has shown an overall upward trend. From the perspective of scrap exports, the United States is the world’s largest exporter of scrap steel. In 2018, scrap exports reached 17.3 million tons, followed by the United Kingdom (8.8 million tons), Germany (8.2 million tons), and France (6.2 million tons) , the Netherlands (5.6 million tons), and Russia (5.2 million tons). From the perspective of scrap imports, Turkey is the world’s largest importer of scrap steel. In 2018, scrap imports reached 20.07 million tons, the second and third respectively were South Korea (6.4 million tons) and Italy (5.6 million tons).

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