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Jul
16:36
Scrap usage falls globally, except for Turkey: BIR
In the first quarter, scrap deployment in most major markets took a dip, while Turkey fortified its role as a scrap-using nation, according to the latest statistics from the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR).
There was a -9% drop in China’s Q1 steel scrap usage to 41.53 million tonnes, according to the authors of the statistics, Rolf Willeke and Daniela Entzian. Two-digit dips were also seen in Japan (-13% to 7.8mt), and South Korea (-8% to 6.7mt). The…
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