Customer case
New scrap steel containers save time and US$140,000/year in operating costs
November 14, 2022 6 min read
![SSAB Scrap steel container](/-/media/images/services/pde/cc-ssab/1920x570-scrap-steel-container.jpg?m=20230530135143)
Case details
The SSAB strip-rolling facility in Borlänge, Sweden produces heavy steel scrap as a by-product of converting steel slabs into coils and plates of cold- and hot-rolled high-strength steel. The heavy steel scrap was collected at the mill and loaded into a railroad gondola wagon — a heavy-duty, open-top car. The train would then take the scrap to SSAB’s mill in Luleå, in northern Sweden, to be recycled into new steel slabs.
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The previously used railroad wagon — a high-walled, open-topped gondola car — for carrying the heavy scrap steel.