BIGGEST PLANT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 281, 26 November 1937, Page 15

BIGGEST PLANT.

STEEL PRODUCTION.

GERMAN DEVELOPMENT.

USE OF LOW-GRADE ORES.

('Special.—By Air Mall.)

LONDON, November 5.

The man, for whose rejected Jarrow scheme 200 unemployed men marched 300 miles through England, is building the biggest steel plant in the world for the Nazi Government.

The Jarrow Crusade may have failed to move the British Government, but it seems to have impressed General Goer-

He has called in Mr. Hermann Brassert, who proposed the Jarrow steel works, and is "The Brassert Process," which enables good quality steel to be produced from low-grade ores. A new plant is being constructed in Hanover which will have an annual output of 4,000,000 tons from low-grade German ore. Double Supply. This one plant (two smaller ones are to be constructed) will double the supply of German steel from native sources. Hitherto, of the • 19,000,000 tons of German steel a y ear > 10,700,000 tons depended on Spenish, Swedish and French ores and imported scrap-iron.

Britain has about 2500 million tons of native low-grade ore, and the corajwrable British plant is at Stewart and Lloyds, Corby, Northamptonshire.

It has four blast furnaces compared with the eight which will be installed immediately in the first section of "The Hermann Gooring Reich Iron Ore Development Corporation." Mr. Hermann Brassert is an American consultant who pointed out, just after the war, to the Government and steel interests in England, that British low-grade ore wa« workable. He proved it at Corbv, where, by his prooest;. tho cheapest steel in the world is produced. He recommended (ii> 1935) Jarrow as the site for a Bessemer steel works, proposed fl. £4.000.000 scheme (to use imported ->re. but cheap Durham coke), which was blocked.