China will continue to increase its ferrous scrap utilization rates as part of its "Blue Sky" environmental protection policies from 2019, Ma Hongchang, advisor at the Bureau of International Recycling said at the 12th China International Metal Recycling Conference 2019 in Zhuhai, China, this week.
"China will continue to promote the use of ferrous scrap in the coming years, especially through increasing the electric-arc furnace (EAF) ratio in steelmaking and encouraging steel mills to improve their technologies and processes," he said.Blast furnace-based steelmakers are presently required to use at least 20% of ferrous scrap in their steelmaking processes."China...