What is rebar made of?
Rebar takes steel, steel scrap, zinc and epoxy directly. Trace them back and you pass 24 made things on the way to 14 raw materials.
How rebar is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 14 raw materials
- Zinc ore through zinc
- Air through zinc
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Water through steel, quicklime
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Crude oil through steel scrap, propane
- Sulfur through zinc, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through epoxy, caustic soda
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 20 things
Metals 4
Chemicals and fuels 15
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonPropaneSulfuric acidPhenolPropyleneAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaBenzeneNaphthaCharcoalHydrogenToluene