Gloomburg Metallurgical Industries Group
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| Type | Koïsoßwerke |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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.
