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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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