How does a Bhilai fabricator count the steel plate it buys in Scope 3?

Multiply tonnes of plate bought by a per tonne factor, ideally the mill's own figure for that product. If the mill gives none, use an integrated steel average and say so. Plate is usually most of a fabricator's footprint, far more than its own welding and cutting.

Records

• Purchase invoices with tonnes per grade.
• Mill test certificates showing the producing mill.
• Any per tonne figure the mill publishes or shares.

Your own share

Electricity for cutting and welding, gases, and diesel for cranes and trucks. Add these to plate to get a footprint per tonne of finished structure.

For buyers

If your structures are exported to the EU as CBAM goods under chapter 73, the plate becomes a precursor. Keep mill figures by heat or lot.

What Senseible does here

Senseible turns supplier invoices into a Scope 3 record with the supplier, quantity and factor behind every figure, so you can see which supplier data is still missing.

• Bokaro hot rolled coil figure
• Fasteners and chapter 73
• Scope 3 supplier evidence

Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, worldsteel, CO2 data collection methodology, Regulation (EU) 2023/956 (CBAM Regulation), consolidated

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.