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Economics of the use of virgin melting stock in electric furnace steelmoking is not only a matter of the relative cost of melting stock as charged. Possible savings also result from Sower furnace operating costs. Sower rolling, forging, and annealing costs, and improved customer rehtions resulting from a known and uniform quality steel. Producers know that a large portion of their problems would be solved by reducing residual content of their steel ingots to half the present levels and ma’mtoinmg it at a known level. This desirohSe end can be achieved by use of virgin melting stocks.
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Cavanagh, P.E. Sponge Iron and H-lron For Electric Furnace Charging. JOM 8, 1642–1644 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03377910
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