15 Amazing Steel Facts That Will Surprise You
The steel industry is a major contributor to the country’s economy. Steel is being used every day in our daily lives.
- It takes about 40 trees to build a wooden-framed house, but recycled steel from only 4 broken cars to frame a 2000 square feet home.
- All steel frames can be recycled with about 28% of recycling steel in them.
- Steel can be an excellent roofing material (other than wood, asbestos and asphalt).
- Asphalt roofs are heavier than steel roofs and cannot guard against all the elements, unlike steel.
- Steel roofs can stay in great shape for over 50 years but other roofing solutions only have a life of only 17 years.
- Steel doors can withstand fire.
- Steel doors are expensive to install but are a sure-shot protection from burglars.
- If you have a steel-framed house, it is much less likely to be affected by termites.
- All refrigerator doors are made of steel and nearly 140 pounds of the entire body weight of the fridge is held together by steel without any hassle.
- Steel has been used in building skyscrapers since 1883.
- Steel cans are the most recycled products in the food business.
- The new steel developed now is much stronger with great tensile strength than the steel made 20 years ago.
- About 600 tin cans go through the recycle chain every second.
- Nearly 1500 new products and eatables come in steel cans.
- 99% of all steel contained in home appliances is always used to make new steel.
Steel has often been credited to be the lifeline of human civilization.
It is the foundation on which modern life stands. Thanks to many scientific and technological innovations, steel will continue to awe us in the coming years!
