The ingots are then heated in a soaking pit and rails.
2.
More soaking pits were installed as well as a plant to supply the BOP with oxygen.
3.
The plant also needed a continuous caster to replace the obsolete soaking pits and blooming mill in 1995.
4.
This is done in a gas-or oil-fired soaking pit for larger workpieces and for smaller workpieces induction heating is used.
5.
The newly purchased Lowellville Works was equipped with four open hearths, several soaking pits, a blooming mill, and bar mill, and the Youngstown Plant with eight sheet mills, a jobbing mill, and a 72 plate mill.
6.
The Duluth Works featured a ten furnace open hearth steel production facility, two blast furnaces, 110 oven by-product coke conveyors and crushing and sizing towers, a pig iron casting facility, a blowing house powerhouse, a Heine boiler house, fresh water pumping inlet station, a hot gas soaking pit and stripping building, a massive rolling facility consisting of a blooming mill, 28 " rolling mill, billet finishing department, hot gas re-heating beds, bar finishing department, fence post fabrication unit, merchant mill, wire, nail, fence and welded fabric mesh building, machine repair shop, three massive materials yard crane bridges and loading / unloading docks, locomotive engine repair and servicing building, its own railyard, a lab, an ore thawhouse, a coal thawhouse, and various warehouses and other structures.
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