Since last year, the state began to crack the steel, to the end of this month all the IF furnace will be completely eliminated. With the billions of tons of steel production capacity to exit, will face a lot of scrap everywhere available, although the recent blast furnace enterprises to increase the proportion of scrap use, but can not consume all the scrap, which is the main reason for the surge in scrap exports in April The And, with the growth of China's steel reserves, scrap production will increase year by year, the development of electric arc furnace steel ushered in the best opportunities. In fact, the largest rebar producers in developed countries and regions are electric furnace mills, and most of the rebar is also produced by the electric furnace business.
Nucor is the world's largest electric furnace steel mill, is also the largest US rebar production enterprises. There are about 200 factories, including wholly owned subsidiary Harris Steel, David J. Joseph and Skyline Steel, with an annual capacity of more than 20 million tonnes. The main products are bar, rebar, wire, profiles, sheet and plate.
Is the largest rebar manufacturer in Japan, is an electric furnace steel mill, established in 1947, the annual crude steel production capacity of about 2.8 million tons, the main varieties are rebar, bar, billet, profiles and rebar joints. Rebar market share of about 15%.
There are five factories in Japan, distributed in the main rebar consumption areas. Yamaguchi produces rebar and various small profiles, Hirakata Osaka produces billet, Hirakatach produces rebar, Nagoya produces rebar and prestressed rebar, and Kanto manufactures rebar.
Celsa Group is the most complete variety of long steel products in Europe, is also the largest long plant, production capacity of about 10 million tons, the main varieties are rebar, snail, wire, small profiles, flat steel, structural profiles and other long products. Celsa has eight steel mills in Europe, all of which are electric furnaces, distributed in Spain (4), UK, France, Poland and Norway. Celsa is Europe's largest rebar mill (rebar capacity of 3 million tons), the second size of the plant and the third largest structural plant.
Fung Hing Steel is the largest electric furnace mill in Taiwan and the largest rebar manufacturer, with crude steel production close to 2 million tonnes. The main products for the rebar, profiles, bars and wire. Products are mainly used for construction, screw nuts and machinery manufacturing. Fengxing steel products are mainly sold locally in Taiwan, and some products are sold to mainland China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and Australia.
Comprehensive analysis It appears that the distribution of electric furnace steel mills in developed countries and regions is closer to the consumption area and the larger the consumption is, the more dense the distribution of the steel mills, which is determined by the characteristics of the electric furnace steel mills. Steel consumption areas, but also the production of scrap, raw materials to obtain more easily, and close to the steel consumption area, but also the flexibility to meet customer needs.
China's main export provinces in Guangdong Province in April and Fujian Province, the two provinces of China's major rebar consumption areas, but the output is not high, especially in Guangdong Province, most of the rebar supplied by other provinces. Therefore, the current building materials in China's major consumption areas of the development of electric arc furnace steel is imminent. Compared to blast furnace, electric arc furnace steelmaking pollution and energy consumption is much smaller, and the production of flexible, stop production and re-production costs are low, help stabilize the market, to avoid steel prices rose or falling.
