- Industry: Metals
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Normal ability to produce metals in a given time period. This rating should include maintenance requirements, but because such service is scheduled to match the needs of the machinery (not those of the calendar), a mill might run at more than 100% of capacity one month and then fall well below rated capacity as maintenance is performed.
Industry:Metals
The theoretical volume of a mill or smelter, given its constraints of raw material supply and normal working speed.
: Engineered Capacity: The theoretical volume of a mill or smelter, given its constraints of raw material supply and normal working speed.
: True Capacity: Volume at full utilization, allowing for the maintenance of equipment and reflecting current material constraints. (Bottlenecks of supply and distribution can change over time — capacity will expand or reduce. )
Industry:Metals
Steel that has properties made up mostly of the element carbon and which relies on the carbon content for structure. Most of the steel produced in the world is carbon steel.
Industry:Metals
Casing is the structural retainer for the walls of oil and gas wells, and accounts for 75% (by weight) of OCTG shipments. Casing is used to prevent contamination of both the surrounding water table and the well itself. Casing lasts the life of a well and is not usually removed when a well is closed.
Industry:Metals
The process of pouring molten metal into a mould so that the cooled, solid metal retains the shape of the mould.
Industry:Metals
Process to directly cast molten steel into a final shape and thickness without additional hot or cold rolling. This reduces capital investment, energy, and environmental cost.
Industry:Metals
The act of loading material into a vessel. For example, iron ore, coke, and limestone are charged into a Blast Furnace; a Basic Oxygen Furnace is charged with scrap and hot metal.
Industry:Metals
The chemical composition of steel indicating the amount of carbon, manganese, sulfur, phosphorous and a host of other elements.
Industry:Metals
An alloying element that is the essential stainless steel raw material for conferring corrosion resistance. A film that naturally forms on the surface of stainless steel self-repairs in the presence of oxygen if the steel is damaged mechanically or chemically, and thus prevents corrosion from occurring.
Industry:Metals
Method of applying a stainless steel coating to carbon steel or lower alloy steel (i.e., steel with alloying element content below 5%).
Industry:Metals
