Steel

Steel

Steel is a type of metal forged with iron and coal that is lighter and stronger than iron.

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Taconite

Metals; Steel

Natural mineral containing less than 30% iron. It is the primary ore used in blast furnaces.

Austenitic

Metals; Steel

The largest category of stainless steel, accounting for about 70% of all production. The austenitic class offers the most resistance to corrosion in the stainless group, owing to its substantial ...

Baghouse

Metals; Steel

An air pollutant control device used to trap particles by filtering gas streams through large cloth or fibreglass bags.

Automatic gauge control

Metals; Steel

Using hydraulic roll force systems, steelmakers have the ability to control precisely their steel sheet's gauge (thickness) while it is travelling at more than 50 miles per hour through the cold ...

A cold-rolled, low-carbon sheet steel used for automotive body panel applications. Because of special processing, the steel has good stamping and strength characteristics, and, after paint is baked ...

Basic oxygen furnace (BOF)

Metals; Steel

A pear-shaped furnace, lined with refractory bricks, that refines molten iron from the blast furnace and scrap into steel. Up to 30% of the charge into the BOF can be scrap, with hot metal ...

Auto stamping plant

Metals; Steel

A facility that presses a steel blank into the desired form of a car door or hood, for example, with a powerful die (pattern). The steel used must be ductile (malleable) enough to bend into shape ...