From iron to steel
Basic oxygen steelmaking
Basic oxygen steelmaking (or BOS) is the main bulk production process for refining Iron into Steel. BOS vessels can take up to 350 tonnes of molten iron at a time and convert it in to steel in less than 30 minutes.
Continuous casting
A ladle of steel is teemed (or poured) through, a gas tight refractory tube, into a tundish. The tundish is a reservoir that allows the steel to flow at a controlled rate through further gas tight refractory tubes and into a series of water-cooled copper moulds.
