GREAT STEEL CENTRE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 47, 26 January 1937, Page 10

GREAT STEEL CENTRE

REMARKABLE GROWTH. Flourishing conditions in the steel industry are resulting in big works extensions in the great Lincolnshire steel centre of Scunthorpe, which, from being a rural area with 7500 inhabitants fifty years ago, now has a population of 40.000 and produces 900,000 tons of pig-iron and 1,000,000 tons of steel annually. A new 300-ton steel-making furnace is to be erected at the works of the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company. A large plant for the making and supply of coke for their blast-furnaces is to be put down and additional buildings and equipment for the company’s plate mills, so as ro increase capacity for shearing and for handling the larger output of plates, are to be erected. Arrangements have been made to double the capacity of the sintering plant at the company's ironworks. At the Normauby Park Steelworks of another firm, a wharf is to bo built on the River Trent, which will be connected by a 11-mile railway direct with the works. The wharf will be 400 feet long and will accommodate two vessels of 1500 tons each. It is. anticipated the wox'k will he completed in about twelve months Also a new steel furnace at Richard Thomas and Co’. T s Scunthorpe works of approximately TDO tons capacity is expected to be in operation soon. This company will then have six openhearth units at their plnnt at Redbourne Works. Scunthorpe.