January 2023

Information Regarding the Recycled Content of Steelscape’s Products

Steelscape has made a commitment to continually improving its environmental footprint and the sustainability of its products. To that end, we are pleased to present to you some basic information to help inform and educate you on the recycled content of our products.

For background, ‘recycled content’ means the proportion of our products that are generated from post- consumer and/or pre-consumer material. ‘Post-consumer’ is material generated by households and businesses, such as tin cans and old car bodies. ‘Pre-consumer’ refers to materials recovered from the manufacturing process before it is sold to consumers, such as scrap from the car industry sold back to the steel industry. ‘Reutilization’ of materials, such as scrap within the steelmaking process, is not considered pre-consumer material and thus not included in calculating recycled content.

In Steelscape’s manufacturing process, the raw material from which we produce our products is hot band steel coil. Therefore, the recycled content of our steel products is directly related to the recycled content of the hot band steel coil we utilize.

Standard Hot Band: Currently, Steelscape’s main hot band suppliers, which provide our standard hot band, use a basic oxygen furnace (BOF) process. Unless a customer specifies otherwise at time of order quote and order entry, this standard hot band is applied to all orders. As the amount of recycled content in BOF hot band steel varies by producer, the specific recycled content within our products utilizing standard hot band will vary. In addition, as most of our standard hot band suppliers do not track recycled content within their own manufacturing processes, the exact percentage of recycled content in our products utilizing standard hot band is not available.

High Recycled Content Hot Band: Steelscape does have the ability to utilize a higher recycled content hot band steel upon request. This high-recycled content hot band steel may contain 50-75% recycled content in total. On average, the pre-consumer portion accounts for 20-35%, the post-consumer portion accounts for 30-40%, and the remaining portion represents ‘reutilized’ materials. Steelscape products utilizing high-recycled content hot band may be available upon request and must be specified at the time of order quote and order entry. Please inquire with your Steelscape sales representative.

For more information on how Steelscape’s material recyclability impacts green building design, specifically LEED v3, LEED v4 or LEED v4.1 building standards, please refer to the separate technical bulletins.

If you have any questions, please contact your Steelscape sales representative, or Steelscape directly at (888) 553-5521 or at productinfo@steelscape.com.

Sincerely,

Michelle Vondran Technical Manager Steelscape LLC

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