Copper content is key, says Mark Trapp, a melt-shop metallurgist at the mill. Each feedstock has advantages and disadvantages. Tuscaloosa developed an EAF power profile that forms a large molten pool fast and directs the DRI there for fast melting. There's no safe place to put them. We use them as 5 percent of our charge at most.
Electrodes tend to break on bundles.
In-plant computers display Santee Power's current power rate. While making sure the Berkeley operators have the information they need to mix feedstocks wisely, plant manager Rodney Mott takes responsibility for buying scrap. Senior executives should make sure mills don't stockpile too much scrap. Despite the low steel prices, Birming ham Steel had its most profitable month in Nov. 1998, when it had cut scrap inventories and could take advantage of the cheap scrap available then. Because Danieli, Ford, Kobe Steel, Midrex, and Itochu Intl. think MIS might be able to make steel more efficiently than existing mills.