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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1949
Page
6
Canton faces a future shaped by rising steel output and new technologies. Top pressure on furnaces boosts pig iron production by up to 20 percent while Canton mills celebrate a year since the first continuous cast steel.
The piece explains Canton’s role in the steel industry chain with ore from Mesabi, limestone, and coal from the Ohio Valley. It covers mining methods from open pit to shaft, coke production in by product ovens, blast furnaces, pig iron, and the open hearth process, plus scrap use and alloying in steel making. It highlights open hearth furnaces as the main steel producer method and notes the flow from ore to pig iron to refined steel.
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