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Advanced Materials & Processes,  October, 2005  

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Selected items from the pages of Metal Progress, the monthly magazine of ASM International from 1930 to 1986. 60 years ago ... October 1945: The steelmaking capacity of Jan. 1, 1945, is rated at 95,500,000 tons of ingots and castings per year, an increase of about 13,750,000 since Jan. 1, 1940.

The blast furnace capacity is 67,300,000 tons per year of pig iron and ferroalloys, an increase of 11,500,000 tons. Obviously, the industry is now using a greater amount of new iron to make each new ton of steel. The maximum ore production was 105,526,000 gross tons in 1942. Two ...

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