[CNN]
“China’s biggest steel firm says it will receive its first shipment of scrap metal from the World Trade Center wreckage soon and turn it into steel plates — not, as some newspaper reports had suggested, souvenirs.”
“The towers’ steel outer skeleton was formed of steel beams up to two feet thick.”
“Workers have been whittling away at the ruins since [9/11], with hundreds of trucks carrying rubble out of the crater each day.”
Shanghai Baosteel Group Corp. “bought 50,000 tons of steel scrap at a price of “less than $120 per ton,” the newspaper quoted Baosteel executives as saying.”
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