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

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/bhilai-fabricator-steel-plate-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](https://senseible.earth/answers/bokaro-steel-hot-rolled-coil-cbam-figure)
- [Fasteners and chapter 73](https://senseible.earth/answers/monterrey-steel-fasteners-cbam-cn-7318)
- [Scope 3 supplier evidence](https://senseible.earth/scope-3-supplier-evidence)

Sources: [GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-value-chain-scope-3-standard), [worldsteel, CO2 data collection methodology](https://worldsteel.org), [Regulation (EU) 2023/956 (CBAM Regulation), consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.