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May – the South African Government and Iscor decide to build a third integrated works at Newcastle. 1974: 17 March – first steel was made at Newcastle Works. 1980s: South African government commits itself to transferring certain state interests to the private sector. 1982: Iscor closes two oldest blast furnaces at Pretoria Works. 1989 ...
The York brand has been owned since August 2005 by Johnson Controls, when it was sold to them for $3.2 billion. [75] [76] At the time of the acquisition, it was the world's largest independent manufacturer of air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration machinery. Its stock symbol was formerly YRK.
An industrial chamber furnace, used to heat steel billets for open-die forging. An industrial furnace, also known as a direct heater or a direct fired heater, is a device used to provide heat for an industrial process, typically higher than 400 degrees Celsius. [1]
A metallurgical furnace, often simply referred to as a furnace when the context is known, is an industrial furnace used to heat, melt, or otherwise process metals. Furnaces have been a central piece of equipment throughout the history of metallurgy ; processing metals with heat is even its own engineering specialty known as pyrometallurgy .
Saldanha Steel was a South African steel company originally formed as a partnership between Iscor Limited and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). [1] Saldanha Steel is now part of ArcelorMittal South Africa, which in turn is part of global steel company ArcelorMittal .
As of July 2012, due to overcapacity and reduced demand in Europe, it had idled 9 of 25 blast furnaces. [23] In October 2012, it permanently shut down two blast furnaces in Florange, France. [26] In May 2013, the company sold a 15% interest in its Labrador Trough iron ore mining and infrastructure asset to Posco and China Steel for $1.1 billion.
Iron metallurgy in Africa concerns the origin and development of ferrous metallurgy on the African continent.Whereas the development of iron metallurgy in North Africa and the Horn closely mirrors that of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean region, the three-age system is ill-suited to Sub-Saharan Africa, where copper metallurgy generally does not precede iron working. [1]
Open hearth furnace workers at the Zaporizhstal steel mill in Ukraine taking a steel sample, c. 2012 Tapping open-hearth furnace, VEB Rohrkombinat Riesa, East Germany, 1982. An open-hearth furnace or open hearth furnace is any of several kinds of industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to produce ...