China’s preference for nickel pig iron may prove disastrous to scrap industry: BIR
05 Nov 2013 Last updated at 05:29:08 GMT
BRUSSELS (Scrap Monster): The increased use of nickel pig iron (NPI) by Chinese stainless steel industry has lead to major slump in scrap requirement. The continuously growing internal and external scrap volumes may create a stainless scrap ‘bubble’ in the coming years, observed BIR Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Committee in its meeting held in Warsaw recently.
Over the past decade, NPI’s share of the Chinese stainless steel industry’s external raw material purchases rose to 57%, whereas the external scrap requirement plunged from 52% to 11%. The country’s stainless scrap reserve is expected to climb by over 200% to touch 62.2m tonnes by 2020. Further, the scrap reserves may soar to 164m tonnes by 2030. The stainless steel industry’s inclination towards the NPI may ruin the scrap industry in the country.
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