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2. Metamorphoses in steelmaking since 1950
Between 1950 and 2009, global steel production increased more than 6-fold, from 190 Mt/year to 1,225 Mt/year, after peaking at 1,351 Mt in 2007. Figure 5 shows the evolution of annual world production: total and for each of the 4 families of processes used during this period, i.e. :
fours Martin ;
electric arc furnaces ;
air-cooled converters ;
oxygen converters.
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Bibliography
Note: given the breadth of the field covered, a selection had to be made from the extremely abundant bibliography on these topics.
- (1) - - World Steel Association. – Steel Statistical Yearbooks, http://www.worldsteel.org .
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