Material passport
Mild steel
Ferrous
- Grade
- NEEDS_VERIFICATION (often A36 / S235 family — do not assume)
- Composition
- Fe with low carbon; exact chemistry UNKNOWN per lot
- Feedstock
- Iron ore, scrap steel, or purchased mill stock
- Virgin / recycled
- UNKNOWN per lot
- Machinability
- Good on mild grades
- Weldability
- Generally readily weldable with MIG/stick — verify grade
- Recyclability
- Highly recyclable as scrap
- Recycling method
- Remelt in EAF/induction — industrial; local scrap loop possible
- Provenance
- Seeded qualitative passport. Numeric properties UNKNOWN unless cited.