STEELMAKING INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 8

STEELMAKING INDUSTRY.

is destined t-o play an increasingly important part in the industrial life of Australia, with the advent of tho Broken Hill Proprietary Company's Newcastle works as a producer. Tho official opening of the works, says the Melbourne "Argus," gives additional interest to. certain hgures of output of steel products for 1914 from the Unted States and Germany, a point of similarity in both groups of statistics being the "increasing percentage of steel manufactured by the open-hearth process, which is the method adopted at Newcastle. Tho production of roils in tho United States -was 1,945,095 long tons in 1914, or a decrease of 44.5 per cent, on tho 1913 figur«6. Tho open-hearth process was responsible for 78.5 per cent, of the 1914 total, as compared with 72.2 per cent, the previous year. The liessomcrproccss rails were only 323,897 tons in 1914 Figures given by tho German Iron and Steel Union purport to cover tho total steel production of that country for 1914, which i 6 set down as 14,973,106 metric tons compared with 16,958,819 metric tons in 1913. The Bessemer converter plants were still responsible for the largest, part or 55.3 per cent, of the total, while the openhearth products rcsprcsontod 41.4 per cent., as coiuparcd with about 40 per tent, the previous year.

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