LARGEST BLAST FURNACE IN BRITAIN
The largest furnace in Britain was put into commission by the ApplebyFrodiugham Steel Company Ltd., Scunthorpe, recently. Two hundred feet high, the furnace is almost twice as big as the average British blast furnace, and is capable of producing 3,500 tons of pig iron a week, using the local Frodingham ironstone. If the new furnace were smelting American ores, which have a much bigger iron content, it would be capable of turning out 1,000 tons of pig iron a day. Another furnace of similar design was expected to he started in a few weeks.
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Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 7
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99LARGEST BLAST FURNACE IN BRITAIN Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 7
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