Wahi a nā hōʻike a nā pāpāho haole, e hoʻokomo nā mea hana kila US ʻo Nucor, ʻo Cleveland Cliffs a me ka hale hana kila North Star o BlueScope Steel Group ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa ma mua o $1 biliona ma ka hana ʻōpala i ka makahiki 2021 e hoʻokō ai i ka ulu ʻana o ke koi o ka mākeke kūloko ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa.
Ua hōʻike ʻia e piʻi aʻe ana ka hana kila o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa ma kahi o 20% i ka makahiki 2021, a ke ʻimi ikaika nei nā mea hana kila o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa i kahi lako paʻa o nā mea maka mai nā kaʻa i ʻoki ʻia, nā paipu ʻaila i hoʻohana ʻia a me nā ʻōpala hana. Ma ke kumu o ka hoʻonui ʻia ʻana o 8 miliona tone o ka hiki ke hana mai 2020 a i 2021, manaʻo ʻia e hoʻonui ka ʻoihana kila o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa i ka hiki ke hana kila pālahalaha o ka ʻāina ma kahi o 10 miliona tone i ka makahiki 2024.
Ua hoʻomaopopo ʻia ʻo ke kila i hana ʻia e ke kaʻina hana hoʻoheheʻe kila ʻōpala e pili ana i ka umu arc uila i kēia manawa he 70% o ka huina o ka hana kila ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa. Hoʻopuka ke kaʻina hana i nā hoʻokuʻu kalapona dioxide haʻahaʻa ma mua o ka hoʻoheheʻe ʻana i ka hao hao i loko o nā umu pahū i hoʻomehana ʻia e ka lanahu, akā hoʻokau pū ia i ke kaomi ma ka mākeke ʻōpala o ʻAmelika. Wahi a nā helu helu mai ka hui kūkākūkā ʻo Metal Strategies ma Pennsylvania, ua piʻi aʻe nā kūʻai ʻōpala e nā mea hana kila o ʻAmelika i 17% i ʻOkakopa 2021 mai ka makahiki ma mua.
Wahi a nā helu helu mai World Steel Dynamics (WSD), i ka hopena o 2021, ua piʻi aʻe ke kumukūʻai kila ʻōpala o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa ma ka awelika o 26% no ka tona ke hoʻohālikelike ʻia me ka manawa like ma 2020.
"I ka hoʻomau ʻana o nā hale wili kila e hoʻonui i ko lākou mana EAF, e lilo ana nā kumuwaiwai ʻōpala kiʻekiʻe i mea kakaikahi," wahi a Philip Anglin, Luna Nui o World Steel Dynamics.