Königin Elisabeth II. auf der MS Stadt Duisburg. Die Niederrheinische Hütte präsentiert den Union Jack.
Category Archives: Ruhr-West
The Last Blast Furnace In Duisburg-Ruhrort.
50 years ago August Thyssen Hütte AG built the largest blast furnace in Europe at its plant in Duisburg-Ruhrort.
Blast furnace 6 had a hearth diameter of 11 metres, a volume of 2200 m³ and a total height of 100 metres. It was relined and modernized in 1983. Less than two weeks after the commissioning of the second blast furnace in Duisburg-Schwelgern, blast furnace 6 was shut down on November 9, 1993.
One year later, the 19,000 ton blast furnace was dismantled and shipped to India.
In 2000, the blast furnace was put back into operation 30 km south of Mumbai at Nippon-Denro-Ispats Dolvi works. Now called Dolvi No. 1.
In 2010, Ispat was acquired by JSW Steel.
In 2016, the former blast furnace 6 was replaced by a new 4.323 m³ furnace in just 4 days using the so called single block method.
ArcelorMittal Duisburg-Ruhrort
Auf dem Gelände des ArcelorMittal-Hüttenwerks in Duisburg-Ruhrort stehen trotz div. Abrisse und Umbauten noch zahlreiche industriehistorisch interessante Bauten aus der Thyssen – und Phoenixära.
The Last One
in Germany. VDM-Metals’ heavy blooming-slabbing mill NO.2 in Duisburg.
The rolling mill was built by the DEMAG company from Duisburg and was put into operation at the August-Thyssen Hütte in Duisburg on 1 April 1957.
It supplied slabs to Thyssen’s new wide hot strip mill.
Blooms with a weight of up to 27t are supplied by 18 soaking pits and two cranes.
Two DC engines of 4200 kW each run the two.high rolling stand.
They are fed via a hugh Ilgner transformer consisting of two asynchronous motors with 3500 kW four control generators (two each for a rolling motor) and a flywheel with 566 tm². 
The rolling mill is owned by VDM-Metals now to produce highly alloyed slabs. After the closure of Reiner Brach’s old Klöckner rolling mill in Bremen it is the last of it’s kind in Germany.
Further images.
Thank god tomorrow is an ordinary working day again.
The 5,1 Meter Heavy Plate Mill
in Mülheim was installed nearly 50 years ago in 1969. The 270 t rolling stand was manufactured by the Sack Maschinenfabrik in Düsseldorf, it was the largest of it’s kind in Germany. Today it is owned by Salzgitter Mannesmann Grobblech and mostly delivers heavy plates to the Europipe tube welding facilities in Mülheim.
Karte der Ruhrgebietsindustrie
Anfang der 1950er-Jahre war das Ruhrgebiet noch jenes einzigartige Labyrinth aus Werksanlagen der Schwerindustrie, Eisenbahntrassen, Kanälen und zersiedelten Großstädten, das der amerikanische Journalist Max Ascoli 1949 unter der Überschrift “Industrial Jungle: the Ruhr” beschrieben hatte. Die kürzlich vom Regionalverband Ruhr veröffentlichten historischen Luftbilder des Ruhrgebiets erlauben nun einen faszinierenden Rückblick auf diese Landschaft.
Als Ergänzung zu den Luftbildern aus dem Jahr 1952 ist diese Karte entstanden.
Sie zeigt die wichtigsten Industriebetriebe der Region in dieser Zeit gegliedert nach Branchen.
Casting-Rolling Mill
The unique casting rolling unit at ThyssenKrupp’s integrated steel mill in Duisburg, Germany produces strip up to 1,6 m wide with a combined caster and a 7-stand finishing mill in one heat.
The facilities were installed in 1999.
Images now at Stahlseite.
ThyssenKrupp’s Work Horse
the hot strip mill No.2 in Duisburg-Beekerwerth celebrated it’s 50th anniversary in late June.
Installed in 1964 and producing about 6 Mio. tons of hot strip each year it still is one of the most powerfull rolling mills worldwide.
Images now at Stahlseite.
TKS Heavy Plate Mill, Duisburg
The heavy plate mill in Duisburg-Hüttenheim, Germany was built by the Mannesmann company in 1963 to supply plates to their adjecent large diameter pipe welding mill (closed in 1978).
In 1970 the August Thyssen Hütte AG took over the flat rolling business from Mannesmann.
In 1978 the Sack company installed the 3,9 meter four-high rolling stand still in use today.
Images now at Stahlseite.