Did you know that ...

...steel can be easily separated from other residues, mainly by means of electromagnetism? It can, thus, be used infinite times, keeping the same characteristics, with low cost and high process efficiency.

... each 75 recycled steel packaging, a tree is saved, as, without this, it would be turning into charcoal? Each 100 recycled cans, savings correspond to a 60 W lamp on during one hour?

... crushed cans do not impair packed product quality? Cans are coated with protecting elastic varnishes, which resist to deformation. On the lead connection, product undergoes a 180-degree "deformation", and this does not impair the content quality.

... Itaipu Plant was built with steel equivalent to 350 Eiffel Towers?

... steel-scraping resistance allows the production of new steel consuming only about 70% of power spent for production from natural raw materials?

...valid date of soft drinks is longer when they are in cans than when they are kept in other type of packaging? This kind of package conserves the gas on beverage for a longer time. So, "pet" bottles have a shorter valid date.

...concrete, when internally reinforced with steel bars, is called reinforced concrete?

...an automobile has about 450 kg of steel plates (normally cold rolled plates or galvanized plates). 90 million of tons would be enough to produce 200 million automobiles. Considering a length of 3 mt by car, if they were put bumper against bumper, this 200 million of vehicles would form a band that would encircle Earth about 15 times.

...an oilcan of 900ml uses 90g of tin plate. 8km (8.000mt) of tin plate could produce 90.000 cans, ie, 620.000km of tin plate are needed to produce one oilcan to each person on Earth. 

...quenched steel is the steel produced from the iron purification while it is steel in a liquid state, newly removed from the Blast Furnace and cooled very rapidly? So, it will be resistant and shiny. The process by which steel is heated and rapidly cooled is called quenching.