What are the sources of scrap stainless steel?
Scrap stainless steel: scrap stainless steel utensils used in daily life (old material). The majority of scrap stainless steel imported from Japan and Korea each year belongs to this category. The stainless steel will only be melted down to make use of waste material. Kitchen equipment, tableware and so on, the main steel grades are SUS304, 430. The food processing industry, mainly manufacturing food processing machinery and containers, such as food, beverage, main products in dairy processing equipment, frozen refrigerated equipment are 304, 321, 1Cr13 and antibacterial ferrite stainless steel.
Industrial waste: stainless steel city landscape engineering mainly in the stainless steel pipe, the car industry is mainly automobile exhaust pipe of ferritic stainless steel 409, other industries such as city water supply engineering, environmental protection, petrochemical and power industry, there are a lot of waste stainless steel. Bits and pieces (new material) cut and punched in industrial production, including some tubes, rods, plates, etc. that are directly used. Oil, gas and acid pumps and containers are large markets for the production of stainless steel tanks, pipes, pumps and valves. The main steel grade is 18/8 stainless steel.
The main sources of waste stainless steel are stainless steel scrap produced by industrial and stainless steel processes, long term use of stainless steel equipment for damage and scrap, and stainless steel appliances used in daily life.
