Type D is for deep-drawing applications and is used infrequently for cans. Type L. A major deterrent to charging more steel cans is the fluctuating cost of the commodity, Crawford says. The amount of cans bought by Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point, Md., facility varies depending on their price, says Charles Brown, the plant's general foreman of scrap handling. An HRB is another name for a loose, wire-wrapped bale of cans. There currently is about four pounds, or 0.20 percent, of tin per gross ton of steel cans.
Pearlite improves yield and tensile strengths.
Charging cans at Sparrows Point Bethlehem Sparrows Point is one of the industry's largest users of steel cans. It consumes 20,000-25,000 annual tons of them in its BOFs. Sparrows Point has melted an average of 2,000 tons of cans a month for the last three years. AMG Resources of Baltimore is Bethlehem Sparrows Point's chief supplier of steel cans. The municipalities pay the MRFs to take the material.