Is Pig Iron Vital to Electric Furnace Users?

摘要

The paper asks the question: is pig iron vital to electric furnaces? The honest answer has to be no. Yet, the reality is that EAFs would struggle were there no merchant pig iron and there are clear technical and economic advantages that mean it would a foolish EAF operator that didn't consider using pig iron. I believe that the usage of pig iron in EAFs will increase in the future for the reasons given above.