General comment High data quality. Data collected on site by steel industry experts in accordance with the worldsteel methodology and ISO 14040 standards, and consistency-checked by PE LCA-experts.
#Coke, sinter, pellet, hot metal, slab production based on site specific data.
#Metallurgical coal data based on global IEA statistics and information from the GaBi database.
#Iron ore data obtained from iron ore producer.
#Other upstream data based on the GaBi database, including country specific electricity.
The LCI does not include any further processing beyond the steelworks gate such as bending, shaping, cutting, welding etc. |