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A Century of American Steel - The Strip Mill and the Transformation of an Industry (Hardcover)
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A Century of American Steel - The Strip Mill and the Transformation of an Industry (Hardcover)
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The steel industry provides much of the material basis for modern
civilisation. Although its end products are numerous, the largest
sector of the industry is involved in the production of wide strip.
This is used by countless other industries to make a range of
products from automobile bodies, and the cases of domestic
appliances, to metal furniture and cans for the preservation of
foodstuffs and drinks. A hundred years ago sheet steel was made in
labor-intensive operations by a large number of small rolling
mills. This is an account of how this relatively backward part of
the industry was transformed by the invention and industrial
application of a revolutionary new technology. In the hot strip
mill a slab of steel was passed through a series of rolls to be
reduced into a continuous band of wide strip, which was then
shipped either as coils or cut into sheets. The introduction of the
wide continuous hot strip mill began to concentrate the sheet and
tin plate industry into much bigger operations complete with iron
making, steel works, rolling mills and finishing plant. New
companies rose to prominence; some old industry leaders fell
behind. Many former locations for sheet manufacture were abandoned,
but other old plants and companies re-equipped and survived. Major
producers of other products entered the new trade. Less than thirty
years ago another major change began when electric arc steel
furnace operators began to install strip mills and the trade of the
now rather inappropriately named `mini-mill` grew rapidly at the
expense of the longer established iron-open hearth steel-primary
rolling mill-strip mill industry. Now, as its centenary approaches,
the strip mill sector is still undergoing major changes. This book
surveys the growth, structure and changes in this dominant part of
the steel industry. The strip mill has transformed steel
world-wide, but in its origins and development it has above all
been a distinctively American achievement.
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