Recycling

Today, the material flow for stainless products demonstrates that the recycling of pre and post-consumer stainless steel scrap is a well established and efficient process. In the production of stainless steel, a scrap blend and raw materials such as chromium, molybdenum and nickel are melted together in an electric furnace before going into a converter for refining. The molten stainless steel is then cast into slabs or billets for subsequent production of plate, sheet, coil, wire and other forms. Manufacturers from diverse industries then produce the stainless steel items we use every day.