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scarp steel melting

05/03/2008 3:12 PM

i want to start plant to collect local steel scarp, melt it and produce billits.

where do i start , what equipment I need , i want to do this on small scale .

please give your input my e mail : tarik-g@rocketmail.com

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Re: scarp steel melting

05/03/2008 6:07 PM

How are you going to compete with Japan and China?

Anyway go the great american rust belt most likely a foundry for sale but it will be closed all except for U.S. Steel but they import steel from Japan.

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Re: scarp steel melting

05/03/2008 8:11 PM

Well, to produce billets you will need a continuos caster, That should be about $125 million for decent technology.

Of course you'll already have the Electric furnace shop to melt the scrap, and a bulk materials handling system for the ferro manganese and other chemistry additions you'll need to make commercial grades.

The spectrometers for the chem lab should be under $100,000; The leco carbon analyzers might go for under $50,000. without that you won't have any way to verify steel grade.

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