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SteelAsia was established in 1965 by Benito Yao and Go Kim Pah, the latter being the founder of Equitable Banking Corporation. [4] The company was founded as the Island Metal Manufacturing Corporation setting its first steel mill in Quezon City with the capacity of 30,000 tons per year.
The steel industry became a priority during the country's First Five-Year Plan period (1953–1957), when industrial development became China's primary goal. [2]: 67 Power plants, steel, mining, machinery, chemicals, and national defense were deemed high priorities.
In 2008, 2009, 2015 and 2016 output fell in the majority of steel-producing countries as a result of the global recession. In 2010 and 2017, it started to rise again. Crude steel production contracted in all regions in 2019 except in Asia and the Middle East. India is the 2nd leading producer of iron and steel industries. [citation needed]
Steel is an alloy composed of between 0.2 and 2.0 percent carbon, with the balance being iron. From prehistory through the creation of the blast furnace, iron was produced from iron ore as wrought iron, 99.82–100 percent Fe, and the process of making steel involved adding carbon to iron, usually in a serendipitous manner, in the forge, or via the cementation process.
Lemery Works was a project of Filipino firm SteelAsia Manufacturing Corp. and Chinese firm HBIS Group Limited. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding on August 30, 2019, to develop an integrated iron and steel facility in Lemery, Batangas during the Philippine-China Business Forum, a side event of President Rodrigo Duterte's diplomatic visit to China.
Bronze tiger inlaid with gold and silver, Han dynasty Metallurgy in China has a long history, with the earliest metal objects in China dating back to around 3,000 BCE. The majority of early metal items found in China come from the North-Western Region (mainly Gansu and Qinghai, 青海).
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The Iligan Steel Mill was established in 1952 as a government-initiated project of the National Shipyards and Steel Corporation (NASSCO). [2]After NASSCO applied for a $62.3 million loan from the United States-based Eximbank to fund projects, the latter suggested a transfer of the facilities' management to the private entity.