steel industry
Alloy production sector
The steel industry encompasses the businesses and activities involved in producing steel from iron ore and scrap metal.
It includes mining, smelting, refining, and manufacturing steel products.
Once a bellwether of industrial strength, the steel industry remains central to construction, automotive, and infrastructure sectors: The steel industry employed thousands in Pittsburgh.
Tariffs aim to protect the domestic steel industry.
- blast furnaceOre-to-metal converter
- rolling millMachine for shaping metal
- iron oreExtractable metallic mineral deposit
- rust beltDeclining industrial region
- scrap metalDiscarded reusable iron and steel
slag heap · rebar · labor unions · trade tariffs · manganese · coke · carbon footprint · Krupp · steelworker · blue collar · chromium · tempering · pig iron · sparks · annealing · Bessemer process · electric arc furnace · open hearth
- economic historystock market crash, Industrial Revolution, trade routes, Great Depression, gold standard
- Postwar BritainAttlee, NHS, National Health Service, rationing, ration books
- Jefferson CountyJefferson County, Jefferson, Birmingham, Hoover, Fairfield
- RuhrEssen, Dortmund, Krupp, coal mines, coal miners
- TeessideMiddlesbrough, Stockton, South Bank, petrochemicals, ICI
- CharleroiRoux, metro system, coal mines
steel industryagriculture
Cultivation of land, livestock
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steel industrytech industry
Computing and software businesses
software industry · digital economy · information economy · knowledge economy · Silicon Valley
steel industrytextile industry
Sector producing cloth goods
fashion industry · food industry · paper industry · cotton industry