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Metal products and Oxygen

Metal products depends on oxygen.

Metal products (industry) and Oxygen (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Oxygen → Metal products

2 of the enterprise types in Metal products depend on oxygen; for the most dependent, it rates 3 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 2 enterprise types depend on it
  • 3 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Integrated steel mills and electric-arc mini-mills: oxygen steelmaking (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Steel and aluminium service centres: oxy-fuel cutting (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.