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Germany‘s blast furnaces are in the top league<br />

Reducing agents consumption<br />

in kg/t HM<br />

800<br />

760<br />

750<br />

700<br />

Figures of 2007<br />

650<br />

600<br />

550<br />

500<br />

450<br />

400<br />

350<br />

300<br />

250<br />

200<br />

604<br />

587<br />

552 544 540<br />

510 508 497 493 492 488<br />

475<br />

559<br />

India<br />

Ukraine<br />

China<br />

The steel companies in Germany<br />

have always been particularly in-<br />

novative and are under the tech-<br />

nological leaders worldwide. These<br />

reductions have been achieved with<br />

effi cient heat and energy recovery<br />

systems and other innovations in<br />

the production process. Thus Ger-<br />

Russia<br />

Other<br />

Europe<br />

Africa, Middle<br />

East, Oceania<br />

NAFTA<br />

man blast furnaces – with 488 kg<br />

per tonne of hot metal – have a<br />

considerably lower consumption of<br />

reducing agents than most regions<br />

and countries worldwide. The global<br />

average is 559 kg per tonne of hot<br />

metal.<br />

Taiwan<br />

Japan<br />

EU 15<br />

South<br />

Korea<br />

Germany<br />

South<br />

America<br />

World<br />

Ga s<br />

Oil<br />

Coal<br />

Coke<br />

Source: Stahl-Zentrum<br />

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