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Induction furnaces were first installed in India to make stainless steel from imported scrap. Their use evolved in the early 1980s into production of mild steel, the popularity of the induction melting furnace being driven by relatively low capital and operating costs [compared to EAF steelmaking]. There are currently several hundred induction furnaces in India. Although their distribution around the country is fairly uniform, some ~20% of induction furnaces are based in each of the Maharashtra and Punjab states.

We consider that there are ~48 zinc coating lines in the United States of America. The average capacity of these lines is ~550kt zinc coated coil or sheet / year. The largest facilities are the AK Steel plant at Middletown in southwest Ohio [capacity ~1.6 mt/year], the Severstal facility at Sparrows Point [Zn coating capacity ~1.4 mt/year] and US Steel's Midwest galvanising plant at Portage, Indiana [capacity 1.2 mt/year].

There are ~50 producers of welded tube and pipe in Central and Eastern Europe. The larger producers include the Vyksa Metallurgical Works in Russia [part of the United Metallurgical Company or OMK Group] with ~3.3 mt / year welded pipe capacity; and the Khartsyzk Tube & Pipe Works in the Ukraine [owned by the Metinvest Group] with ~2.6 mt/year of production capacity.