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Port Talbot Steelworks
Imports will be relied on until the electric furnace is built , with Tata continuing to meet customer demands by processing imported steel slabs at Port Talbot .
Tata ’ s UK blast furnaces are the UK ’ s biggest single carbon polluter . This transition to electric arc furnace technology at Port Talbot designed to reduce carbon emissions by five million metric tonnes a year and secure the future of steel manufacturing in Port Talbot and the UK at large .
North Carolina-based Nucor produces steel and related products and , as well as being the largest steel producer in the US , is the largest recycler of scrap in North America .
“ We make steel through an electric arc furnace – which is very different from the traditional steel making ways – and we ’ ve been doing this for 60 years ,” Tabitha Stine , Nucor ’ s General Manager of both Marketing & Branding and Energy Solutions Services explains .
“ So , 70 % of the world ’ s steel is made through blast furnaces , with the other 30 % made through an electric arc furnace . In the US , it ’ s different – 70 % is made through electric arc furnaces and 30 % via a blast furnace .
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