Blast Furnace
Iron ore, limestone and coke are refined inside a blast
furnace
Steelmaking Shop
The molten iron is transferred to a Basic Oxygen Process
shop, where it is combined with steel scrap and alloying
elements and refined into steel
Steel
Slab Casting
Molten steel is then continuously cast into large slabs
Hot Strip
Mill - Control Room
A view of the control room for part of the hot strip
mill, which, like the rest of today's integrated steel mills, is full of the latest technology
Hot Strip Mill - Reheat Furnace
This is a continuous cast slab leaving a reheat furnace and entering the hot strip
mill
Hot Strip Mill -
Roughing Stands
This is the same slab passing through roughing
stands on its way to the finishing rolls, where it will be transformed into hot-rolled coil
Cold
Reduction Mill
The hot-rolled, pickled coils enter this mill on one side and pass through six cold reduction stands,
then exit on the opposite end, where the coils are banded and sent to the hot-dip coating line
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