Resumen de Aachen 2014: : Refractories face evolutionary growth path to 2020
Siobhan Lismore-Scott, Laura Syrett
While Japan's steel industry has managed to cut specific consumption of refractories to around 7kg/tonne, making it the most efficient in the world ahead of North America and Germany, which both consume aroundE10kg/tonne in steel making, China remains well above the global average at around 20kg/tonne of steel produced.
"China was a relatively late entrant into the steel production market," [Jessica Roberts] said, adding that the country has cut its use of refractories in steel from around 55kg/tonne in the 1980s and is continuing to reduce its requirements.
Kerneos has recently invested in a red bauxite facility in Greece to help meet some of its raw materials needs and has also opened treatment plants in France and China to upgrade bauxite fines, helping it to reduce its dependence on a single type of Chinese bauxite - although [Christoph Woehrmeyer] admitted that this is a costly alternative.
