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ABSTRACT
The recycling of ferrous products is a mature process that meets technical, economic and ecological criteria. This article takes stock of the recycling chain of goods containing iron, their usable resources, their market organization, and their development perspectives regarding quantities and quality. This last criterion has become crucial to broadening the use of ferrous scrap in the production of all types of steel, whether for common long steel or sophisticated flat steel products.
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Philippe RUSSO: Research engineer in charge of projects on the recycling of steel products and the quality of scrap resources - ArcelorMittal global R&D, Maizières-lès-Metz, France
INTRODUCTION
After taking an analytical approach to the recycling of ferrous materials in the article
In this article, we present the organization of scrap metal collection and what makes it so efficient. We then look at the various ways in which end-of-life capital goods and consumer products can be processed into scrap of a quality that meets the specifications of steelmakers and foundries. We'll then look at how scrap consumers have defined their quality criteria, with the essential notion of use value, and what techniques they have at their disposal to measure the quality of the batches of scrap they receive. Finally, we'll look at the avenues explored by Research and Development to improve scrap quality and make it more regular. This improvement is necessary, as the quantities of scrap available for recycling increase over time, while the growth in demand for new steels is expected to slow down once all regions of the world have reached "post-industrial" development. At that point, a greater proportion of scrap will be used to produce different types of steel, some of which require perfect control over the quality of the raw materials, which is not yet the case for all categories of scrap.
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recycling | technology | steel products
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The ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 families are among the best-known standards ever published by ISO. They are implemented by some 760,900 organizations in 154 countries. ISO 9000 has become an international benchmark for quality management requirements in business-to-business relations, and ISO 14000 is expected to do equally well, if not better, in helping companies meet their environmental...
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