steel production
Making structural metal
Steel production is the industrial process of making steel from iron ore and other materials.
The term encompasses various methods—blast furnaces, basic oxygen furnaces, electric arc furnaces—and the entire chain from raw materials to finished steel.
Global steel production reached record levels last year.
The region's economy depends heavily on steel production.
- electric arc furnaceElectrode-heated metal smelter
- iron oreExtractable metallic mineral deposit
- smeltingExtracting metal from ore
- slag heapAccumulated mining refuse
- refractoriesHeat-resistant ceramic materials
furnace · metallurgy · emissions control · ironworks · heavy industry · industrial revolution · rust belt · basic oxygen furnace · open hearth · coke · Bessemer process · ladle · flux · steelworks · continuous casting · pig iron · molten metal · crucible
- Innovationselectricity, steam engine, printing press, telephone, telegraph
- heavy industrysteelmaking, smelters, foundries, smelting, blast furnaces
- manufacturingfactories, factory, car factory, assembly plants, electronics factory
- metalworkingwelding, casting, forging, smithing, smelting
- steelmakingblast furnace, basic oxygen furnace, pig iron, cast iron, blast furnaces
- Asian inventionsgunpowder, paper money, compass, movable type, printing
steel productionresource extraction
Obtaining substances from nature
coal mining · quarrying · drilling · metal refining · logging
steel productiondeconstruction
Analysis exposing self-contradiction
demolition · dismantling · decommissioning · junking · wrecking
steel productionplant closure
Permanent end of manufacturing operations
deindustrialization · artisanal crafts · cottage industry · blacksmithing · agricultural production