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© Uwe Niggemeier The Steel Industry Photography team is back from the Ural. So stay tuned for some captures from the “evil empire”.
View ArticleThe Smallest Active Blast Furnace
I ever visited is located in the southern Ural, Russia. © Uwe Niggemeier The 250m³ (9000 cu-foot) furnace produces ferromanganese casted in pig beds. The Satka Iron Smelting Works is the oldest...
View ArticleThe living legend in Southern Ural
Tapping the blast furnace no.9. © Viktor Mácha (www.viktormacha.com) Southern Ural town of Magnitogorsk belongs among the legends of world iron and steel industries. The first construction plans for...
View ArticleSteel From The Steppe
Tapping Furnace NO. 1 ©Uwe Niggemeier Deep down in southern Russia, close to the Kazakh border, the Ural Steel mill in Novotroitsk was founded in 1955 under the name Orsko-Khalilovsky Iron-and-Steel...
View ArticleNizhny Tagil Region
Alapaevsk Iron Works © Uwe Niggemeier The Ural region is a cradle of the Russian iron and steel industry. Based on it’s rich iron ore deposits a vast number of charcoal fired blast furnace sites...
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