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Probably the last chance, after the demolition of the LD steel plant of Henrichshütte in Hattingen, to preserve a converter steel plant in Germany is wasted.
The OBM (Oxygen-Bodenblasen-Maxhütte) melt shop in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, built in 1974, with it’s three bottom blowing 65 t converters and the 1200 t hot metal mixer is under demoltion and will soon be gone:
VIDEO Bayrischer Rundfunk.
a CASTOR at the Siempelkamp foundry. Krefeld, Germany in 2005.
Hochofen 3, 1956
Hochöfen Wetzlar, 1962
Sheet metal has been rolled at the Siegen-Geisweid site since 1846.
VDM-Metals GmbH’s current quarto plate rolling mill was commissioned in 1977 by Stahlwerke Südwestfalen.
For this purpose, a DEMAG cold rolling stand dating from 1954 was converted into a hot rolling mill.
After a fracture in the roll stand the SMS Group replaced it with a new 2.7 m four-high stand in 2013. The drives were taken over.
In Siegen, VDM-Metals rolls high-alloy speciality steels which are mainly produced in ingot casting in Unna and rolled into slabs in Duisburg.
Further images.
Another German steel foundry had to close it’s gates.
After producing iron and steel castings for 120 years, Schütte Meyer & Co. in Iserlohn-Letmathe made it’s last pour in early April. Images here.
was put into operation 60 years ago in April 1959.
Blast furnace 4 had a hearth diameter of 6,5 m and was meant to be the first out of 8 furnaces originally planned.
The beginning of integrated steel making in Bremen already marked the end of iron production in Klöckner’s Haspe and Georgsmarienhütte works in the long term.
Blast furnace 4 was finally closed down in March 1979.
The Gienanth iron foundry in Eisenberg, Germany, founded in 1735, is one of the oldest working industrial enterprises in south-western Germany.
Today the foundry runs a 30t/h hot blast cupola furnace, installed in 1978, four induction furnaces and three 60 ton holding furnaces.
Major products are blocks for stationary and ship diesel engines.
Further images.
Noch 1960 ließen sich die Hamburger Gaswerke von Koppers in Essen eine nagelneue Kokerei in den Hafen (Kattwyk) bauen.
Sie versorgte zusammen mit der benachbarten Kokerei Grasbrook Hamburg mit Stadtgas und Gaskoks.
Nach dem Siegeszug des Erdgases wurden die Kokereien Grasbrook und Kattwyk 1976 u. 1982 stillgelegt.
Almost unnoticed another tradition-steeped company passed away last March.
The former Buderus Spezialguss in Wetzlar, Germany went bancrupt after casting iron for more than 100 years.
