Steel Mills
The Process
Properties
Ferrous Steels
Careers
100

Burning out all the impurities from pig iron results in this product.

What is Steel?

100

The process of heating a high-carbon steel to its critical temperature, then quenching it.

What is Hardening?
100
The property of resistance to penetration or plastic deformation.

What is Hardness?

100

The two classification groups of steel.

What are Plain Carbon and Alloy Steels?

100

An individual repairing, assembling, fabricating, and maintaining high pressure piping systems.

Who is a Pipefitter?

200

Feeding iron ore, coke, and limestone into the top of the blast furnace.

What is a skip car?

200

The process of removing stress of steel to improve grain structure and bring it back to a natural state.

What is Normalizing?

200

The property to withstand shock or impact.

What is Toughness?

200

Steels used to manufacture cutting tools such as drills, reamers, taps, and cutters.

What is High-speed Steel?

200

An individual repairing structures and machinery using fabrication techniques and joining components.

What is a Welder?

300
Used to separate iron ore from rock.

What is the pelletizing process?

300

The process of heating a hardened steel to its lower critical temperature, then cooling it in a liquid or air.

What is Tempering?

300

The properties of colour, density, conductivity, corrosion resistance, and melting temperature.

What are Physical Properties?

300

This element allows steel to harden when present in high percentages when the steel is heated to critical temperatures.

What is Carbon?

300

An individual using precision machines to produce components out of steel, plastics, or composite materials.

Who is a Machinist?

400

Containing 70 percent iron ore and varying in a black to brick red colour.

What is Hematite?

400

The process of relieving internal stresses and strains in steel to soften it and improve machinability.

What is Annealing?

400

The property of no permanent distortion before breaking.

What is Brittleness?

400

An American institution that regulates steel composition and quality.

Who are the SAE or AISI?

400

An individual repairing, maintaining, and troubleshooting industrial machinery and equipment.

Who is a Millwright?

500
Smelting iron ore with coal and oxygen in a liquid bath.

What is Direct Ironmaking?

500

The process of cooling steel rapidly from its critical temperature.

What is Quenching?

500

Outside forces such as rolling, forming, drawing, bending, welding, and machining.

What is Mechanical Properties?

500
The lose of magnetic value when ferrous steel is heated to its critical temperature.
What is Decalescence Point?
500

An individual installing, measuring, controlling, and calibrating sensors, valves, and transmitters.

Who is an Instrument Technician?

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