Electric Arc Furnace
At the Frogswitch foundry in Carlisle, Pa. . (A frog switch is the cross section of a railway turnout).
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At the Frogswitch foundry in Carlisle, Pa. . (A frog switch is the cross section of a railway turnout).
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At the Frogswitch foundry in Carlisle, Pa. . (A frog switch is the cross section of a railway turnout).
Electric Arc Furnace
Lechstahlwerke, Meitingen.
VDM Metals, Unna
One of the lesser-known steel plants is VDM Metal’s melt shop in Unna, Germany.
It was built as a greenfield project in 1972. All smelting activities of Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke AG were concentrated there from then on.
In 1989, the Krupp Stahl AG took over VDM. The company became part of ThyssenKrupp in 1999.
Since 2015 VDM is owned by private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg from New York.
VDM Metals Unna operates a 30t, 15 MVA electric arc furnace, three 16t induction furnaces, a vacuum induction furnace and 3 electroslag remelting ovens.
VDM-Metals specialized in Nickel alloys and special alloyed steels.
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