I just love steel making videos. I have worked in exploration and mining my entire life, but there is very few steel works in Australia, otherwise I would have ended up in that industry! Oh well, off to make some thermite!
I love to see us the United States of America manufacture raw material like this I was a certified welder for 3 years till I decided I liked truck driving better , makes me proud.
I grew up at the Ford Rouge Complex! My Grandfather was a tool room machine repairman at the rolling mill! Dad went to Henry Ford Trade School there in the 40’s and then became a Ford supplier!
We need more plants like this one in the USA. I own a very small metal fab shop with cap to shape .125 thick X 96" sheet, mostly alum. and S.Steel but do use .125" cold rolled sheet.
I never heard of this several plant and I'm from steel capital USA Pittsburgh... I work in a steel coils Slitting process co. VAP... and wow who the heck is this smart to invert all this machinery... its mind boggling
Severstal is the largest Russian based steel corporation. - They puchased this facility from Ford Motor Company in 2004. - - There were 3 original blast furnaces there, that were built by Henry Ford, between 1917 and 1927. - - After the purchase, Severstal decommisioned 2 of the blast furnaces, and and fully refurbished the 3rd blast furnace. - The decommissioned blast furnaces were used for parts. - - Severstal invested 1.6 billion dollars, and refurbished, and or modernized the foundry, hot rolling equipment, the cold rolling equipment, the annealing equipment, and the annodizing equipment. - - In 2014, this modern facility was sold to AK Steel Corporation, that is based in Ohio.
+Walter's Playground - Severstal, the Russian Company did all the hard work, of refurbishing, and modernizing the facility. - AK Steel had good financing, and bought a modernized facility. So, now they are operating it, and producing with it. -
Severstal sold as a response to the Russian issue in Ukraine and other concerns at the time. That "convinced" them to liquidate many assets in the USA. It was a political expedient and nothing more. There was a facility in Iowa that made angle and strap steel that was also sold at that time. Not certain of the others.
+Brent Hendricks The Russian instability, caused Severstal to sell quickly. So, they lost a lot of money on the sale. - Severstal had about 1.6 billion dollars invested into the purchase and modernization of the facility. - AK Steel purchased the facility for 707 million dollars in cash. They made a good deal, and benefitted from the Russains work. - The moral of the story is that you can make better money off of fresh immigrants. They work harder, and are not as stable.
I hauled out of this plant when the Ford's owned it and when it became Severstal. I use to run 5 loads a day outta this plant with most of my loads going to Spartan steel down in Monroe to be galvanized.
I work at #7 in East Chicago...... it's a dump. I spend 90% of my time rebuilding structure instead of fixing equipment. It's falling apart faster than we can replace unfortunately.
Updates- Hot Strip Mill (5:07), Original Cold Mill building, my old home, with Annealing (8:10) and Temper Mill (aka skin pass) (8:26) were all closed as of Summer 2020. We are now called Cleveland Cliffs. As for the blast furnaces, 'A' furnace was shut down and pillaged for parts long before I hired in 30 years ago. Some portions of 'A' are currently being removed and scrapped. Severstal took 'B' furnace out (it is an empty hole now) with plans to rebuild. Rebuild never happened. 'C' furnace is still running.
Sucks about the jobs that were lost. Hopefully conditions improve and maybe they’ll consider restarting the mills. I’ve been a 2 stand 4 high cold mill operator at an aluminum plant for 16 years. Rolling aluminum sheet coils for building and construction markets, commercial cookware, license plates, etc. 🤙🏻
@@djhaloeight A few that were thinking about retiring did just that. Everyone else went to other buildings. The whole plant was short staffed before closing HSM and CM. Some trades chose to go to the newly created mobile maintenance and crane repair departments. I went to utilities.
Y section 3695 worked overtime in h10 h9 j5 j6 k2 k4 x2 x3 x5 x4 . Worked all cranes in annealing including the one in this video known as w6. Skinpass cranes z3 z5 z1 the old shipping cranes and new shipping cranes band yard cranes sy3 and sy2 I put in the upgrades to hotsrip hm8 and tore out the old downender and conveyor put in the new coil handling system when the pltcm came online annealing had 2 tandem mills dumping steel on us. Everything I knew and worked they shut down severstal canceled our 30 years and out pension . They split the cold mill in 2 . Ak cliffs left us without the capability to ever produce our own coils again we can no longer be a stand alone mill . Someone else would have to buy us and build a new hotsrip because from what I know the hotsrip in this video has been partially tore apart .
@mosesmarlboro5401 it is really sad I still walk through some of those areas and remember all the people and the work we put in to keep producing we was like a dysfunctional family and seen more of our coworkers then our own families the amount of people who raised there families in these abandoned areas I can't even imagine how many people went through there. We all got split up into different buildings . It is true we was all short handed and most just got relocated but it's the number of jobs lost that will never be filled that other people could of hired into and raised there families with . The disrespect other companies had when coming in and dismantling history of the ford rouge plant. They could left it all alone and used it as part of the tour from Henry for museum. Old pickle lines and tandem mill looks like a war zone and it looks like it hasn't ran for 50 years
I was there for 18yrs. If it wasn’t for the Russians we would have been out of a job. US Steel only wanted our order books. Then AK buys it, now AK is sold to someone else.
Monte Wiederhold It’s dirty as fuck in there now, it looks like literal hell. I’ve done some pipe welding inside of there about 2 years ago and it’s so disgusting now, the whole area is just coated in a thin film of dirt. Southwest, delray and dearborn are just complete shitholes.
I never in my life actually saw how big some of these companies really are and the amount of steel it took to build the machines that build steel is absolutely on comprehensible
Worked in a steel mill as an engineer for a while. From a technical perspective, there is a lot of intimate details that are fascinating. Working in the environment, however, sucks. Much of this video is marketing BS. Not wrong, but shown from a slanted perspective.
They used to buy the Coke for making steel from shenango coke works near Pittsburgh. But then they did try to sneak in and sabotage the lab results to try to weasel out of a 10 year contract. But the coke works is gone now
Unbelievable that we can pull this ingenuity together.Every out of touch politician should have to see this!That 29 year old,ORTEZ has no idea how difficult it will be to go green,,think of this plant...there IS just no way to be stupidly.blindly green.OUT OF TOUCH WITH AMERICAN INDUSTRY.HER DREAMS ARE BASED ON IGNORANCE.sHE IS NOT STUPID or evil,just un educated to what it takes to have a wonderful country.
@@karlc8808 At least the mill wasnt shut down and shipped off to fucking China like literally every other industry in the entire fucking world. But hey, Russia bad, China good right?
Well, the marketing department certainly went all out on that joke of an ad ^^ I can already see the technicians facepalming at all the back patting and technical mistakes :p
That looks like double eagle. I worked for a company that used to go there and repair the rubber on the rolls and tanks for the plating process. The company was abtrax industries in ingster Michigan .
They do look similar but Double Eagle doesn't do hot dipped. I don't know if they are still running. They were bought by US Steel where, I worked. USS closed up their steel making in Detroit but still do the galvanizing, pickling and finishing. Severstal's hot dip looks eerily like GLW's same as their hot rolling and the BOF that we called BOP. I retired from USS just as they were laying everyone off.
I find the machinery fascinating also there's many ways to look at it. It's amazing most of that machinery is built in South Korea, disassemble then brought over on a ship then assembled in America. I'm not surprised it could not be built in America. I don't think America has made that kind of machinery in decades especially that size/caliber of equipment.
@@K-Effect It could be built in America like it was for a few hundred years, but like everything its about cost. When you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars of machinery, buying from Korea would have saved them several million dollars. Its the same story with most manufacturing in the west these days, but things are starting to change. The way China is behaving is showing western leaders that being reliant on foreign sources is not healthy and could be dangerous.
@@crs5500 no different than the suburbanites claiming to be from Detroit, while they live in Oakland County. Dearborn and Detroit are basically synonymous anyway. At least the eastern part of Dearborn
Those commenting on job loss and automation you can almost directly thank the big unions for that. Companies, like people will only tolerate so much bullying before they make a change which is usually leaving. Our nation has tried so hard to protect us that it has essentially driven away what it was trying to protect. Yes some things are needed but like arguing at home. Sometimes battles we think that are won are truly lost in the end. Just my two cents but I work the industry and I can tell you from first hand.
Automation outproduces meatbags while making products meatbags are physically unable to produce on manual systems. Germany has strong unions AND has spectacular productivity per worker.
Ummm ... How 'bout the management wizards of smart who turned USSteel into a holding company, USX, and decided to run steelmaking assets into the ground rather than modernize ... because the ROI was better in their chemical "business portfolio". Screw America's strategic need for modern and competent steelmaking ... if it doesn't show a good quarterly profit (and yield fat bonuses) it's thrown away. That, Adam my friend, was as big a factor as union work rules in the destruction of the American steel industry. This native Pittsburgher lived thru those years; I'm not blowing smoke here.
@@rogerb5615 : SafeSpace makes a good point. If you're blaming this on labor, you're either being willfully coy or you don't understand how we've gotten where we are. On top of automation, the financialization of everything has really done a number on us. A real big number.
I will tell you first hand unions gave SAFETY and FAIRNESS go look at the names on a wall ( local 1010) paid in blood. You still have to work, they never guarantee job for life or tons of money
China - best years for USA steel around 2003 -2008 . for some reason China wasn’t dumping as much , so the steel mills could charge more . May be a factor why the auto companies went bankrupt
Yes - the vacuum degassing and cgl continuous galvanizing make the steel that car companies want . However , It is a price competitive business because of China ,
Thanks for the video! Was very detailed but please get rid of the stupid music in the back ground... it doesn't make our viewing experience any better than if have gotten to hear the originals sounds from the machinery and processes being played in the back ground
I've never heard of hydrogen rich atmospheres used to "restore ductility ~8:09" in steel. I believe the contrary is true as hydrogen would embrittle steel and reduce ductility, and strength.
If you hold steel at 200-300c for several hours in a low hydrogen atmosphere it will remove trapped hydrogen by effusion. This is actually to reduce hydrogen embrittlement and ease stresses on the surface.
i still remmeber when this was stil fords plant why they sold it il never know but my dad lost his sinyorty only 2 years befor he could retire with full benafits and our famly got scerwed because of it
They closed it because of union workers money demands, it's just that simple. It's cheaper for a company to ship work around the world then to pay their own people that live right down the street. This is what unions will do for you...
Pure Oxygen is blown into the furnace at more than 21,000 cubic feet per minute? Without the furnace blowing up or disintegrating? Considering how reactive O2 can make any super heated substance.
Yeah my nerd side got rattled when i heard them say they use O2 to refine iron, now i have to look into this, i dont know how to make steel best but i know you dont find iron as metal, you find it as oxide and spend a lot of energy removing the oxygen.
It is an OPEN TOP VESSEL, not a furnace. Narrator said it wrong. Yes, it’s blasted in the vessel exactly like blowing air into a straw that’s in a glass of water.
Before each mill the slab is spayed with very high pressure water to remove scale. You would think it would rapidly cool the slab, but it does not. After the finish mill the strip, which is much thinner now, goes through the laminars. The laminars dump thousands of gallons on the strip and cool it substantially(depending on the product) before it is coiled.
They also harvest organs from political prisoners, but of course, morals dont exist in the free market, as long as you can get that cheap steel right bud?
I am a Jorgenson Forge ex- employee. Mitt Romney destroyed steel industries throughout North America while at Bain capital Mgmt. He called it creative destruction; Pierre defector the sell out. Fontana California ran for 2 weeks and dismantled then shipped to China. Jorgenson went out of business because maintenance issues with the 5000 ton press resulted in an inspection and decision to attempt putting in a much larger new press. When outages occur and dirt is removed to convert to a larger cylinder soil samples turned up asbestos. Too big a liability. Once asbestos is disturbed the EPA gets involved. I worked as a journeyman millwright and felt something wrong was going on with my lungs. The AOD vessels in particular were contaminated. Now Trump is trying to rewright workplace safety standards to make it impossible to sue
@@jondoe3561 that is traditional house cleaning that happens. When a new company takes over they usually bring in their own vendors too. The city of Dearborn, gives the new company tax breaks for several years. When those years pass, and taxes are about to go up they sell the business. This was once owned by ford motor co, sevetstal, ak steel . Perhaps u.s. steel will acquire this in the future.
We loved the fact that the Russians bought us many years ago because US Steel wanted to buy us and shut us down after taking our customers. Severstal kept us going, invested a shit ton of money into it, I made 6 figures each year after the Russians literally saved our jobs back then. German company???? Yeah, no.....
They do use galvanized for exposed automotive applications. It is difficult to make and very expensive but the rapid rust deterioration of 1970’s is a thing of the past.
Thanks for the informative and well accomplished video! We must ask why the rather awful music? Factory sounds just might be more appropriate and certainly more representative. Best of luck!
I dont know if we will be doing any kind of high heat factories like this in vacuum anytime soon, it makes everything basically impossible to work with. Make one roll of steel and wait a year for the system to cool off, run something like this continuously, even for a week and you destroy the entire factory, melted and warped. I love where your thoughts are though, truly.
@@tommyguns9008 That is just rude, his question is extremely valid, there are thousands of big brains trying to figure that question out right now. You must be one of the people that refuse to even believe their own eyes. We are going to other worlds and are going to attempt to stay. This will need building materials and a system to manipulate them. Those are called factories.
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This video is almost ten years old and the whole thing seems futuristic
Now I want to buy some steel.
Fillup 40
Lol. No kidding. Pretty cool and interesting video.
Steel it hahaha
I just love steel making videos. I have worked in exploration and mining my entire life, but there is very few steel works in Australia, otherwise I would have ended up in that industry! Oh well, off to make some thermite!
Arty
I love to see us the United States of America manufacture raw material like this I was a certified welder for 3 years till I decided I liked truck driving better , makes me proud.
I spent 48 years in tool&die and metal forming...the terms were familiar...but the process was absolutely amazing. Well done video!
Amazing technology and engineering. What a marvelous process is steel making.
Some extremely bright people that could put all that together and make it run so very precisely.
Really good overview of the amazing Steel Mill process ....Thanks for the video
I grew up at the Ford Rouge Complex! My Grandfather was a tool room machine repairman at the rolling mill! Dad went to Henry Ford Trade School there in the 40’s and then became a Ford supplier!
I live in Warren
We need more plants like this one in the USA. I own a very small metal fab shop with cap to shape .125 thick X 96" sheet, mostly alum. and S.Steel but do use .125" cold rolled sheet.
This is the coolest and most informative video i have ever watched
This is why STEM is so important in high school just look at all the science technology engineering and mathematics that went into this process
Did you study a STEM field?
Great video of American made steel.
I never heard of this several plant and I'm from steel capital USA Pittsburgh... I work in a steel coils Slitting process co. VAP... and wow who the heck is this smart to invert all this machinery... its mind boggling
This reminds me of long summer nights when I would eat warm cheese in the barn with my grandpa. RIPO grandpa.
What the fuck??
Severstal is the largest Russian based steel corporation.
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They puchased this facility from Ford Motor Company in 2004.
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There were 3 original blast furnaces there, that were built by Henry Ford, between 1917 and 1927.
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After the purchase, Severstal decommisioned 2 of the blast furnaces, and and fully refurbished the 3rd blast furnace.
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The decommissioned blast furnaces were used for parts.
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Severstal invested 1.6 billion dollars, and refurbished, and or modernized the foundry, hot rolling equipment, the cold rolling equipment, the annealing equipment, and the annodizing equipment.
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In 2014, this modern facility was sold to AK Steel Corporation, that is based in Ohio.
Interesting, that you for this timeline.
Any thoughts on AK Steel Corporation?
+Walter's Playground
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Severstal, the Russian Company did all the hard work, of refurbishing, and modernizing the facility.
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AK Steel had good financing, and bought a modernized facility. So, now they are operating it, and producing with it.
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Severstal sold as a response to the Russian issue in Ukraine and other concerns at the time. That "convinced" them to liquidate many assets in the USA. It was a political expedient and nothing more. There was a facility in Iowa that made angle and strap steel that was also sold at that time. Not certain of the others.
+Brent Hendricks
The Russian instability, caused Severstal to sell quickly.
So, they lost a lot of money on the sale.
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Severstal had about 1.6 billion dollars invested into the purchase and modernization of the facility.
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AK Steel purchased the facility for 707 million dollars in cash. They made a good deal, and benefitted from the Russains work.
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The moral of the story is that you can make better money off of fresh immigrants. They work harder, and are not as stable.
@@jeromebychowski122 Nope. The moral of the story is don't invade other countries and focus on the economy instead of geopolitics.
I hauled out of this plant when the Ford's owned it and when it became Severstal. I use to run 5 loads a day outta this plant with most of my loads going to Spartan steel down in Monroe to be galvanized.
That is cleanest mill I ever saw! not like the ones in east chicago in
90 percent is a dump only what they want you to see is clean
DANIEL mota Wow, exact opposite of 20 years ago when I was visiting facilities in both locations.
I work at #7 in East Chicago...... it's a dump. I spend 90% of my time rebuilding structure instead of fixing equipment. It's falling apart faster than we can replace unfortunately.
The ONLY buildings not a shithole are the PLTCM and HDGL. 18yrs I spent there, most in the Blast Furnace, that place is NASTY!
@@mephInc what happens to the structure that makes it fall apart?
Excellent videography and narration.
Very very interesting. Please put more videos like this.
Updates- Hot Strip Mill (5:07), Original Cold Mill building, my old home, with Annealing (8:10) and Temper Mill (aka skin pass) (8:26) were all closed as of Summer 2020. We are now called Cleveland Cliffs. As for the blast furnaces, 'A' furnace was shut down and pillaged for parts long before I hired in 30 years ago. Some portions of 'A' are currently being removed and scrapped. Severstal took 'B' furnace out (it is an empty hole now) with plans to rebuild. Rebuild never happened. 'C' furnace is still running.
Sucks about the jobs that were lost. Hopefully conditions improve and maybe they’ll consider restarting the mills. I’ve been a 2 stand 4 high cold mill operator at an aluminum plant for 16 years. Rolling aluminum sheet coils for building and construction markets, commercial cookware, license plates, etc. 🤙🏻
@@djhaloeight A few that were thinking about retiring did just that. Everyone else went to other buildings. The whole plant was short staffed before closing HSM and CM. Some trades chose to go to the newly created mobile maintenance and crane repair departments. I went to utilities.
This is really quite sad.
Y section 3695 worked overtime in h10 h9 j5 j6 k2 k4 x2 x3 x5 x4 . Worked all cranes in annealing including the one in this video known as w6. Skinpass cranes z3 z5 z1 the old shipping cranes and new shipping cranes band yard cranes sy3 and sy2 I put in the upgrades to hotsrip hm8 and tore out the old downender and conveyor put in the new coil handling system when the pltcm came online annealing had 2 tandem mills dumping steel on us. Everything I knew and worked they shut down severstal canceled our 30 years and out pension . They split the cold mill in 2 . Ak cliffs left us without the capability to ever produce our own coils again we can no longer be a stand alone mill . Someone else would have to buy us and build a new hotsrip because from what I know the hotsrip in this video has been partially tore apart .
@mosesmarlboro5401 it is really sad I still walk through some of those areas and remember all the people and the work we put in to keep producing we was like a dysfunctional family and seen more of our coworkers then our own families the amount of people who raised there families in these abandoned areas I can't even imagine how many people went through there. We all got split up into different buildings . It is true we was all short handed and most just got relocated but it's the number of jobs lost that will never be filled that other people could of hired into and raised there families with . The disrespect other companies had when coming in and dismantling history of the ford rouge plant. They could left it all alone and used it as part of the tour from Henry for museum. Old pickle lines and tandem mill looks like a war zone and it looks like it hasn't ran for 50 years
very interesting to see this process, I manufacture car parts using these coils in a stamping press
very good facility very good steel mill.
Sounds like the guy from Modern Marvels
Mind-boggling industrial processing
a facility made of a lot of metal parts, making more metal parts.. and so on.. the world is crazy
"Iron American Dream" on TH-cam
Iron and Steel or what allowed America to happen. That and the work of a lot of men. Men and iron made America.
Russian own company kept alive with Chinese money, you better wave that flag real high sonny :D
Big business is bigger than nations and spans the globe. Who owns it doesn't matter so long as I get paid.
@@XXXEspio You make no sense moron rusky
I was there for 18yrs. If it wasn’t for the Russians we would have been out of a job. US Steel only wanted our order books. Then AK buys it, now AK is sold to someone else.
All the heavy duty equipment is either German or Japanese...
Dang, from 33' to 4100' of rolled steel !
Great production 11 outta 10
Sounds like the process to making a plumbus
Where do you think Justin Roiland got the idea for that skit
Fascinating! Thanks for making this and sharing it!!!
wow...that is an amazing facility
That place from cleanliness and new is shittin on the steel furnace I worked at
great community, henrey Ford would be proud. Really culturally enriched. And diverse too ! ( our strength )
Bullshit.
Israel is our greatest allie
@@Googleaccount_2 just a heads up, old Mr. Ford hated, err, people from Israel, you know that right? check out his friendship with good ol' Adolf.
Very interesting video! Good job!
👨💻👍 watch it good video- Steel mills one of the most Important in our century Imagine no steel ? 😳 i made springs over 25yrs melb vic OZ🐨
Australia the world biggest exporter of coal, iron ore & LPG and we don’t have a steel industry, other than some micro plants
Zak Anderson compare and contrast with Port Kembla of the 1980’s
Zak Anderson with you 100%
Labour sold you lot the fake global hoax
It's owned by AK Steel now
Monte Wiederhold It’s dirty as fuck in there now, it looks like literal hell. I’ve done some pipe welding inside of there about 2 years ago and it’s so disgusting now, the whole area is just coated in a thin film of dirt. Southwest, delray and dearborn are just complete shitholes.
@@-Evo lol you think that dirty.... Go on over to the blast furnace ... Lol
I never in my life actually saw how big some of these companies really are and the amount of steel it took to build the machines that build steel is absolutely on comprehensible
Worked in a steel mill as an engineer for a while. From a technical perspective, there is a lot of intimate details that are fascinating. Working in the environment, however, sucks. Much of this video is marketing BS. Not wrong, but shown from a slanted perspective.
@@thegenrl Hot, cold, union environment, caught between management and the union, in operation 24x7, so worked holidays often.
Where did all the people go? The modern steel mill looks like a ghost town compared to similar facilities in the 1950's and 60's.
What humans have managed to create is unreal.
Do you offer guided tour?? 😅😅Love this industry
Hey hey from HANNA Steel!
It's awesome! I work in a CGL and love it
TYVM, MR FORD....
They used to buy the Coke for making steel from shenango coke works near Pittsburgh. But then they did try to sneak in and sabotage the lab results to try to weasel out of a 10 year contract. But the coke works is gone now
Amazing to see steel making in the USA like this.
Why? There are 12 full service mills and 25 mini mills in the USA.
Unbelievable that we can pull this ingenuity together.Every out of touch politician should have to see this!That 29 year old,ORTEZ has no idea how difficult it will be to go green,,think of this plant...there IS just no way to be stupidly.blindly green.OUT OF TOUCH WITH AMERICAN INDUSTRY.HER DREAMS ARE BASED ON IGNORANCE.sHE IS NOT STUPID or evil,just un educated to what it takes to have a wonderful country.
@@karlc8808 It is now US owned.
@@karlc8808 At least the mill wasnt shut down and shipped off to fucking China like literally every other industry in the entire fucking world.
But hey, Russia bad, China good right?
Well, the marketing department certainly went all out on that joke of an ad ^^
I can already see the technicians facepalming at all the back patting and technical mistakes :p
That looks like double eagle. I worked for a company that used to go there and repair the rubber on the rolls and tanks for the plating process. The company was abtrax industries in ingster Michigan .
They do look similar but Double Eagle doesn't do hot dipped. I don't know if they are still running. They were bought by US Steel where, I worked. USS closed up their steel making in Detroit but still do the galvanizing, pickling and finishing. Severstal's hot dip looks eerily like GLW's same as their hot rolling and the BOF that we called BOP. I retired from USS just as they were laying everyone off.
@@blake9358 Who cares?
@@Alejandro-vb2fx Why do you watch these videos? Hmmmmmmm 🤔
To me it’s not the product, it’s the machines, the 200,ton presses, , the technique,
I find the machinery fascinating also there's many ways to look at it. It's amazing most of that machinery is built in South Korea, disassemble then brought over on a ship then assembled in America. I'm not surprised it could not be built in America. I don't think America has made that kind of machinery in decades especially that size/caliber of equipment.
@@K-Effect smh libtard why u hate America
@@K-Effect It could be built in America like it was for a few hundred years, but like everything its about cost. When you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars of machinery, buying from Korea would have saved them several million dollars. Its the same story with most manufacturing in the west these days, but things are starting to change. The way China is behaving is showing western leaders that being reliant on foreign sources is not healthy and could be dangerous.
Lol, I love how the narrator tells you the Company is located in Detroit, without saying Detroit.
It's not located in Detroit
@@crs5500 no different than the suburbanites claiming to be from Detroit, while they live in Oakland County. Dearborn and Detroit are basically synonymous anyway. At least the eastern part of Dearborn
Cleanest steel plant of all time. Unreal.
Only the PLTCM and HDGL. Trust me, I spent 18yrs there in every building. It is a dirty, Grimey shithole.
So, where has all of this gone to in 2024?
Those commenting on job loss and automation you can almost directly thank the big unions for that. Companies, like people will only tolerate so much bullying before they make a change which is usually leaving. Our nation has tried so hard to protect us that it has essentially driven away what it was trying to protect. Yes some things are needed but like arguing at home. Sometimes battles we think that are won are truly lost in the end. Just my two cents but I work the industry and I can tell you from first hand.
Accurate words.
Automation outproduces meatbags while making products meatbags are physically unable to produce on manual systems. Germany has strong unions AND has spectacular productivity per worker.
Ummm ... How 'bout the management wizards of smart who turned USSteel into a holding company, USX, and decided to run steelmaking assets into the ground rather than modernize ... because the ROI was better in their chemical "business portfolio". Screw America's strategic need for modern and competent steelmaking ... if it doesn't show a good quarterly profit (and yield fat bonuses) it's thrown away. That, Adam my friend, was as big a factor as union work rules in the destruction of the American steel industry. This native Pittsburgher lived thru those years; I'm not blowing smoke here.
@@rogerb5615 : SafeSpace makes a good point. If you're blaming this on labor, you're either being willfully coy or you don't understand how we've gotten where we are. On top of automation, the financialization of everything has really done a number on us. A real big number.
I will tell you first hand unions gave SAFETY and FAIRNESS go look at the names on a wall ( local 1010) paid in blood. You still have to work, they never guarantee job for life or tons of money
$ outlay for this mill its amazing steel isnt much more expensive
It would be if there was not as much supply as there is.
China - best years for USA steel around 2003 -2008 . for some reason China wasn’t dumping as much , so the steel mills could charge more .
May be a factor why the auto companies went bankrupt
It`s about time we build a steel mill that can compete with the would.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we supply baler,shear,shredder for scrap metal....
hot dirty work (I worked at Keystone steel and wire )
When America was mighty
i have no idea why i watched this, but, the amount of additional processing probably makes these products really expensive.
Yes - the vacuum degassing and cgl continuous galvanizing make the steel that car companies want .
However , It is a price competitive business because of China ,
Who made the steel that was used in the machines that made the steel that is making new steel ?
John Henry Ford.
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick
jesse iwamoto Mother Earth dude
China
Originally, the old steel making furnaces used the Bessemer process.
Almost the entire plant was built in Germany, Japan and Italy :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D What exactly are they proud of?
Who worked at ford? Native americans?
Proud of the confidence in and commitment to the future indicated by the capital investment.
America had never anything to be proud of. Yet that’s what they yap about, day and night. The loudest people are always the dumbest.
@@FilthyFairy awww poor baby 👶
Legendary, how comical... 9 out of 10 people have never heard of this place but yet 6 out of 10 people have heard of Bethlehem steel.
Thanks for the video! Was very detailed but please get rid of the stupid music in the back ground... it doesn't make our viewing experience any better than if have gotten to hear the originals sounds from the machinery and processes being played in the back ground
And they expect trucking companies to haul their freight for charity rates.
Don't want the load? Don't take it.
No they don't, you just want a silly union wage.
I want a blast furnace
That's fantastic! My wife's after me to get rid of the blast furnace out in the back yard. Come pick it up - 40 semi loads ought to get it. FREE!
eat some Mexican food 😁 😂 🤣 🌮🌮🌮
I've never heard of hydrogen rich atmospheres used to "restore ductility ~8:09" in steel. I believe the contrary is true as hydrogen would embrittle steel and reduce ductility, and strength.
If you hold steel at 200-300c for several hours in a low hydrogen atmosphere it will remove trapped hydrogen by effusion. This is actually to reduce hydrogen embrittlement and ease stresses on the surface.
E2eeee looking
You could put the narration with an old-timey black and white film and it'd fit together perfect.
Good explanations
Murica!
6:07 and what happens if this ribbon of red hot steel gets jammed and stops at "increasing velocities"?
Then the slab shoots off the tracks or in the air. Seen that happen at Tata in The Nethetlands. Total mayhem and an immediate shutdown of the plant...
@@ZerokillerOppel1 That's a real bad day at the office...
good to know boss
very cool!
Actually it is very hot :)
i still remmeber when this was stil fords plant why they sold it il never know but my dad lost his sinyorty only 2 years befor he could retire with full benafits and our famly got scerwed because of it
Did your dad ever teach you how to spell?
Wes. It's the keyboards fault, it's not interacting with his WHINING!!
Try to be nice, a lot of people were used.
yer spellin neads improovin..
They closed it because of union workers money demands, it's just that simple. It's cheaper for a company to ship work around the world then to pay their own people that live right down the street. This is what unions will do for you...
this is all cliffs now?
Never seen a mill that clean, never.
6 billion dollars put in since 2007. How many workers do you see?
It goes both ways. USS [United States Steel] has a huge steel mill in Kosice, Slovakia with 12,000 workers! www.usske.sk/en/
Pure Oxygen is blown into the furnace at more than 21,000 cubic feet per minute? Without the furnace blowing up or disintegrating? Considering how reactive O2 can make any super heated substance.
The amount of energy lost, energy needed and the fact those walls holding it are so thick and made out of pretty unreliable uncrackable stuff
@@TheFreshSpam What are you even saying? Did you just contradict yourself twice in one sentence?
Yeah my nerd side got rattled when i heard them say they use O2 to refine iron, now i have to look into this, i dont know how to make steel best but i know you dont find iron as metal, you find it as oxide and spend a lot of energy removing the oxygen.
It is an OPEN TOP VESSEL, not a furnace. Narrator said it wrong. Yes, it’s blasted in the vessel exactly like blowing air into a straw that’s in a glass of water.
@@jayrobinson4378 Why would you ever want to add oxygen to iron?
Nice
Almost exactly the same mill as where I work in New Zealand
What an irony! A Russian steel company is building the most modern and efficient steel mill in the USA.
4:02 wonder where all the carbon gas goes ?
If it was so successful why did they sell that site?
5:43 What is the water for? So the rollers don't melt?
Before each mill the slab is spayed with very high pressure water to remove scale. You would think it would rapidly cool the slab, but it does not. After the finish mill the strip, which is much thinner now, goes through the laminars. The laminars dump thousands of gallons on the strip and cool it substantially(depending on the product) before it is coiled.
What like less than 2 dozen people work there ?
Можно мне список музыки из этого видео?
Are they still in business today? China does the same for a lot less cost.
They also harvest organs from political prisoners, but of course, morals dont exist in the free market, as long as you can get that cheap steel right bud?
@@Full_Otto_Bismarck That's Terrible.
It’s sad this mill was bought by AK and driven into the ground.
Ak got rid of the people who made it run! Ak is a miserable company to work for!
I am a Jorgenson Forge ex- employee. Mitt Romney destroyed steel industries throughout North America while at Bain capital Mgmt. He called it creative destruction; Pierre defector the sell out. Fontana California ran for 2 weeks and dismantled then shipped to China. Jorgenson went out of business because maintenance issues with the 5000 ton press resulted in an inspection and decision to attempt putting in a much larger new press. When outages occur and dirt is removed to convert to a larger cylinder soil samples turned up asbestos. Too big a liability. Once asbestos is disturbed the EPA gets involved. I worked as a journeyman millwright and felt something wrong was going on with my lungs. The AOD vessels in particular were contaminated. Now Trump is trying to rewright workplace safety standards to make it impossible to sue
@@jondoe3561 that is traditional house cleaning that happens. When a new company takes over they usually bring in their own vendors too.
The city of Dearborn, gives the new company tax breaks for several years. When those years pass, and taxes are about to go up they sell the business. This was once owned by ford motor co, sevetstal, ak steel . Perhaps u.s. steel will acquire this in the future.
Amazing.
how much do these dudes make?
Wonder how they felt about a Russian company buying them
I've heard it was a German company that bought it ... I was there years ago & the Germans really fixed up the place
AK steel bought it from the Russian Severstal about 5 years ago, now recently Cleveland Cliffs bought it from AK
We loved the fact that the Russians bought us many years ago because US Steel wanted to buy us and shut us down after taking our customers. Severstal kept us going, invested a shit ton of money into it, I made 6 figures each year after the Russians literally saved our jobs back then.
German company???? Yeah, no.....
@@jayrobinson4378 Sounds like a win-win.
I believe Ford are building an electric car making factory at old the Rouge site.
If only the automotive industry would use that galvsteel vehicles might last longer than 3 years. Yet we pay more for obsolescence.
Tesla
They do use galvanized for exposed automotive applications. It is difficult to make and very expensive but the rapid rust deterioration of 1970’s is a thing of the past.
Thanks for the informative and well accomplished video! We must ask why the rather awful music? Factory sounds just might be more appropriate and certainly more representative. Best of luck!
More better steel made by fewer people. The robots are taking over.
Very impressive.
Do they have surface issues due to the pusher furnace?
All the time
wheres the bright anneal? Xd
how do we miniaturize this kind of facility on the moon?
No raw materials that's needed exist on the moon
darren marchant get off the bong dude
I dont know if we will be doing any kind of high heat factories like this in vacuum anytime soon, it makes everything basically impossible to work with. Make one roll of steel and wait a year for the system to cool off, run something like this continuously, even for a week and you destroy the entire factory, melted and warped. I love where your thoughts are though, truly.
@@Trumpster71 The moon is vastly made of exactly the same stuff as earth, why are you talking about things you clearly have no idea about??
@@tommyguns9008 That is just rude, his question is extremely valid, there are thousands of big brains trying to figure that question out right now. You must be one of the people that refuse to even believe their own eyes. We are going to other worlds and are going to attempt to stay. This will need building materials and a system to manipulate them. Those are called factories.
Time to buy a new bath tub