Reinforcing steel (production)

The activity generating the emissions is reinforcing steel production. The reference product is reinforcing steel. Reinforcing steel is a product that belongs to the metal sector. It is an iron and carbon alloy. Iron is a transition metal and carbon is a non metal. It is a direct product of hot-rolling and it is in a form of a bar. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: mainly in the building sector in bridges, buildings, skyscrapers, homes, warehouses, and foundations to increase the strength of a concrete structure. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/1728/documentation.