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Boom times for scrap metal as UK steel industry goes green

Cleaner furnaces to trigger jump in demand for recycled steel
European Metal Recycling works at Alexandra Dock in Liverpool. The industry’s challenge will be to ensure enough scrap steel is available as input material for more electric arc furnaces

Alexandra Dock in Liverpool is one of the UK’s busiest scrap metal yards. The sprawling site on the River Mersey can process up to 500,000 cars a year and sends about 1mn tonnes of recycled steel annually to customers around the world.

With a giant shredder that can chew through 400 tonnes of material an hour, the facility — owned by Britain’s largest private metals recycler and one of the biggest in the world European Metal Recycling — is poised for more business in the green steel transition.

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