Gloomburg Metallurgical Industries Group

Gloomburg Metallurgical Industries Group

Type	Koïsoßwerke
Industry	Steel, iron
Founded	1686 AN
Headquarters	Gloomburg, UGB
Area served	Benacia
Products	Steel, long steel products, structural steel, wire products, steel casing pipes, steel castings
Production output	Steel: 16 million tons p.a Pig iron: 30 million tons p.a.
Employees	268,500 (1686)
Parent	Military-Industrial Relations Bureau
Website	merensk_node/kernel180/adjunct74/GMIG.ugb

Established in 1686 AN, the Gloomburg Metallurgical Industries Group is a consolidation of the foundries and steel mills captured or established in the Governorate of Gloomburg by the Black Legions following the area's occupation and incorporation into the Unified Governorates of Benacia in the aftermath of the Kalirion Fracture of 1671 AN.

It has a guaranteed seat in the Board of Directors, as well as owns 10% of the issued shares of Eura Steel Business, domiciled in Aqaba, and provides consultancy and technical assistance services for the new Eura Steel plant in Susa, Nouvelle Alexandrie.

Organisational structure

• Gloomburg Metallurgical Industries Group (268,500 employees)
  • Board of Directors
    • Chairperson
    • CEO
    • Executive Directors
    • Non-Executive Directors
  • Group Executive Committee
    • Chief Executive Officer
    • Chief Operations Officer
    • Chief Financial Officer
    • Chief Technology Officer
    • Chief Commercial Officer
    • Chief Personnel Officer
  • Central Steel Works (120,000 employees)
    • Steel Plant Operations
      • Coke Ovens
      • Sinter Plants
      • Blast Furnaces (30 million tonnes pig iron/year)
      • Basic Oxygen Furnaces
      • Continuous Casters
      • Hot Rolling Mills
    • Steel Products Manufacturing
      • Flat Products (sheets, plates)
      • Long Products (rails, beams, bars)
      • Seamless Tubes
    • Maintenance & Engineering
    • Process Automation & Control
    • Logistics & Materials Handling
    • Energy Management
    • Environment & Safety
  • Advanced Metallurgy Division (25,000 employees)
    • Metallurgical R&D
    • Advanced Alloy Development
    • Specialty Steels Production
    • Metal Powder Manufacturing
    • Computational Metallurgy
    • Analytical Laboratories
  • Commercial Divisions (35,000 employees)
    • Automotive Steel Products
    • Construction & Infrastructure
    • Machinery & Industrial Equipment
    • Energy & Power Generation
    • Aerospace & Defense
  • Regional Business Units (75,000 employees)
    • Elluenuueq Operations
    • Ransenar Operations
    • Sovereign Confederation Operations
    • Unified Governorates Operations
    • Overseas Operations
  • Shared Services (13,500 employees)
    • Corporate Finance & Accounting
    • Human Resources
    • Legal & Corporate Affairs
    • Information Technology
    • Procurement & Supply Chain

Gloomburg Works and process

The Gloomburg Works are a substantial industrial facility dedicated to the production of steel and steel products from raw materials like iron ore, coal, and limestone. The core processes undertaken there involve transforming these raw materials into liquid steel of desired chemical compositions and then casting the molten steel into semi-finished forms like slabs, blooms, or billets.

The steelmaking process begins with the preparation of raw materials in facilities like coke ovens, sintering plants, and blast furnaces. Iron ore is reduced and combined with coke and limestone to produce liquid pig iron with high carbon content. This pig iron is then transferred to a basic oxygen furnace (BOF) where oxygen is blown through the molten metal to reduce carbon levels through oxidation.

It is in the BOF stage where the precise chemical composition of the steel is adjusted through the addition of alloys and other elements to achieve desired metallurgical properties. Advanced steel alloys contain carefully controlled amounts of elements like chromium, nickel, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, and others that alter characteristics like strength, hardness, corrosion resistance, and high/low temperature performance.

For example, stainless steels contain significant amounts of chromium (10-30%) that forms a passive oxide layer for corrosion resistance. Tool steels have additions of tungsten, molybdenum, cobalt, and vanadium for extreme hardness and heat resistance required for cutting tools. Nickel alloy steels are used for their strength and ability to withstand very high temperatures.

After the BOF process, the molten steel is sent to a ladle metallurgy furnace where secondary metallurgy processes like vacuum degassing, induction stirring, and further alloying take place with great precision to produce ultra-clean and tightly specified specialty steel grades.

The treated molten steel is then continuously cast into semi-finished forms like slabs, blooms, or billets in machines with advanced process controls. These semi-finished steel products may go through additional hot and cold processing steps like rolling, forging, extruding, heat treating, coating, etc. to produce the final steel components for industries like automotive, construction, energy, aerospace and many others.

Throughout the process, extensive computational metallurgy simulations, laboratory analysis, and quality control procedures ensure the tight specifications for advanced alloy compositions and properties are consistently met based on the end application requirements.