iron works
Metal processing plant
A facility where iron is smelted, cast, or manufactured into finished products.
Iron works were central to industrial economies before steel production dominated: The old iron works employed half the town.
The term appears in historical place names and as a singular or plural: The iron works is still standing or The iron works are closed.
- blacksmithingForging iron by hand
- smeltingExtracting metal from ore
- molten metalHeated liquefied alloy
- forgingShaping heated metal; faking documents
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
foundry · crucible · casting · steel mills · industrial revolution · rust belt · rolling mill · heavy industry · metallurgy · artisan crafts · forge ahead · labor unions · anvil · tongs · mining towns · welding · annealing · hammer
- heavy industrysteel mills, steel production, steel industry, steelmaking, smelters
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- industryfactories, factory, automotive, manufacturing plant, manufacturing plants
- Industrial Revolutionsteam engine, railroad, factory, coal, steel
- old industriesblacksmithing, ironworks, sawmills, gristmills, tanneries
iron worksiron mine
Ferrous metal extraction site
iron ore mine · mine · open-pit mine · quarry · coal mine
iron workstextile mill
Facility producing woven goods
cotton mill · paper mill · bakery · pottery · glassworks