Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation
Roanoke, Virginia
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Students from the Metals and Alloys and Transport
Processes classes, along with instructor, Kathy Rohr,
participated in a plant tour at Roanoke Electric Steel last
October.
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| Assistant Quality
Manager, Wendy Munro (above, center), lead students through
the production process, from scrap heaps, that feed the furnaces
to the bundling of finished merchant stock for shipment to customers. |
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Students were able
to observe the fiery furnace while workers injected oxygen into
the molten metal. They also watched as multiple strands of white
hot billets emerged from the continuous casting machine, saw
cast and cooled billets move through pre-heat furnaces, and
tracked the steel through the rolling process and on to sectioning
and packaging for shipment. |
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