Top Suppliers Tool Steel for French Importers

In this video, Peter Brennan interviews Gregory Ludkovsky, vice president, global research and development at ArcelorMittal — who recently won the 2014 Platts Global Metals Award “Lifetime Achievement Award” — on the main challenges facing steel makers in the automotive sector; the impact of environmental issues and legislation on specialty steel manufacturing; and how scientific developments occurring in steel offer distinct advantages over aluminum and composite materials in car design.

Since 2012, Covanta has made significant investments to recycle more metal from the waste stream. Using new technology and installing systems to recycle more ferrous and non-ferrous metals, metal recovery has improved by the equivalent of 16 cars per facility per week for ferrous, and for non-ferrous, the equivalent of 25,000 additional aluminum cans per week. In total, Covanta now recycles approximately 500,000 tons of metal per year, the equivalent of amount of ferrous and non-ferrous metal to build five Golden Gate bridges and manufacture more than two billion aluminum cans.

Recycling metal from EfW facilities avoids a tremendous amount of greenhouse gases and recovers valuable natural resources that would have otherwise been lost in landfills. The production and mining of new steel, aluminum, copper, and other metals products is a carbon intensive process that negatively impacts the environment. By recovering and recycling 500,000 tons of metal each year, Covanta’s operations save approximately 1.2 million tons of greenhouse gases, the equivalent of pulling 112,506 cars off the road for a year.