BIR 2019: China drives 12% rise in global EAF usage in 2018

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Global usage of electric-arc furnaces (EAF) by steelmakers was up12% in 2018, largely due to China’s ongoing drive to increase thequantity of ferrous scrap charged into blast furnaces (BF) to reducepollution, statistics released by the Bureau of InternationalRecycling this week at its 2019 World Recycling Convention &Exhibition in Singapore showed.EAFs accounted for 524 million tonnes of crude steel production in2018, up from 468 million tonnes in 2017, BIR Ferrous Division’sstatistics advisor Rolf Willeke said.