The Fontana Steel Plant and Its Raw Materials Supply
- Organization:
- The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
- Pages:
- 4
- File Size:
- 773 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 1944
Abstract
ABOUT three miles west of Fontana San Bernardino County, California, and fifty miles east of Los Angeles, the Kaiser Co., Inc., has built an integrated steel plant. By integrated, I mean that from its wholly owned iron ore and coal supply, the Kaiser Co. is producing in its own mills iron and steel products. Pig iron to meet the West Coast needs has been produced at Fontana since Jan. 1, 1943; steel ingots were first poured there May 14, 1943; and steel plate for ships was first rolled Aug. 15, just sixteen months after ground was broken. Briefly, the plant consists of: (I) Two batteries of by-product coke ovens, totalling ninety ovens, carbonizing about 1740 tons of coal per day at capacity; with by-product facilities for the production of tar, ammonia, and ammonium suIphate, light oil distillates, and tar distillates. (2) One blast furnace producing at
Citation
APA: (1944) The Fontana Steel Plant and Its Raw Materials Supply
MLA: The Fontana Steel Plant and Its Raw Materials Supply. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1944.