Iran Supports New Ideas on Optimal Use of Steelmaking Slag in Electric Arc Furnace
While steel production has increased by using electric arc furnaces, a large amount of slag from these furnaces is accumulated in steel factories every year.
This accumulation of slag has created various challenges for the companies, including occupying a lot of space for storage and environmental problems. Besides these problems, the use of these slags as a byproduct of complexes can have a positive economic effect.
Therefore, the Digital Innovation and Transformation Center of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Technology Exchange Network and the Gol Gohar Iron and Steel Development Company with the support of the Nanotechnology and Micro Technology Development Headquarters and the Iranian Vice-Presidency for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy have called on the innovators and knowledge-based companies to find a method to transform these slags into products that can be used in various industries and reduce the environmental impacts.
Reports said in September that Iran had exported over 4.9 million tons of steel products in the past 5 months of the current Persian calendar year (started on March 20).
Figures of Iran’s customs office showed that Iran had exported some 4.979 million tons of steel products in the five months and the exports of steel products from the country reached a total of $2.566 billion.
Steel ingots accounted for $651 million worth of exports while rebar and steel sheet were respectively responsible for $455 million and $210 million worth of the shipments in the April-August period, showed the figures.
Iran’s customs office said the country had exported $140 million worth of steel pipes or profiles and $135 million worth of semi-finished steel products over the same period.
Iran has increasingly relied on exports of metals and mining products in recent years amid US sanctions that have caused restriction to its oil exports.
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