Oryx Stainless Group says research it is conducting with Germany’s Fraunhofer UMSICHT institute has determined there was “a savings potential of more than 4.5 tons of CO2” emissions per ton of blended scrap prepared by Oryx Stainless Group and used at melt shops.
For the research project, the Fraunhofer UMSICHT researchers studied the use of scrap blends made at Oryx sites in Dordrecht, Netherlands, and Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
To compute the comparative results, the researchers first calculated the total greenhouse gas savings from substituting primary material in the electric arc furnace (EAF) process. In a second step, they considered the entire Oryx process chain for the sites in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Dordrecht, from collection to production of the finished blends to their transport to the customers.
