Glossary of Steel Industry Terms
WEBColdreduced sheet steel, 12 inches to 32 inches wide, that serves as the substrate (raw material) to be coated in the tin mill. Blast Furnace. A towering cylinder lined with heatresistant (refractory) bricks, used by integrated steel mills to smelt iron from iron ore. Its name comes from the "blast" of hot air and gases forced up through ...