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... If you're looking for a wild manufacturing book, this is it. IIRC, I first read this back in '96. It set a new tone. Hot Metal Men make their steel from entire trains filled to overflowing with chopped-up automobiles arriving daily 💪 ML


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j_frank24_ My father started his career with Nucor sweeping floors, ended his career a division President after almost 40 years. Iverson was a good man. 6 likes

  -  laruetactical @j_frank24_ ... You just gave me goosebumps ! How awesome to walk the floors with those badasses. 💯u s 🔥 3 likes

  -  j_frank24_ @laruetactical Lots of great folks walked those floors. Great businessmen, Americans and people. 1 like

  -  ryanhoegner @j_frank24_ @laruetactical we use a TON (no pun intended) of Nucor across multiple spring manufacturing facilities.

greg_bloem @laruetactical I've got some good video of us charging the furnace with 200 tons of scrap steel here at Steel Dynamics if you'd be interested in seeing some

scoginstephen Nucor is an awesome place to work and they take care of their employees! Great company! I've been with them 15 years now! u s 👍 2 likes

craigthomas4699 Nucor turned the steel industry on its head in the US. The big integrated mills laughed at their plan to only melt scrap instead of running big blast furnaces and BOFs to convert ore into pig iron and steel. They enacted bonus programs to incentivize a caring workforce, made 5S part of daily life, hired people who could turn a wrench and were willing to do so, and had stand up meetings for managers where no one would sit to prevent long winded worthless diatribes. They truly revolutionized carbon steel making in the US. 2 likes

bigredford2008 I used to work for Nucore for a while... wife did too. 1 like

sparky.2036 Never dealt with Nucor, but my grandfather was the general foreman of mobile equipment at Republic Steel, uncle was a boiler maker at Sheet And Tube, mother mechanical draftsman at Republic, grandma's brother a machinist at Sheet And Tube, and her father learned math as a machinist in the mills when he came to this country. The Rust Belt built my family.

  -  sparky.2036 @erectionhugh agreed, I travel for work. There's nothing left in Youngstown...

  -  laruetactical @erectionhugh ... When I first got to Austin in 1978, there was trouble with the now famous 360 Bridge. They bought the steel bridge pieces from S. Korea and the holes were in the wrong place and another bridge had to be built from scratch ... Added a couple years to the ribbon cutting. 2 likes

td3377 I mean can you even call it a steel mill without a blast furnace? Almost like calling yourself a baker after heating up a frozen pie from the store.

  -  laruetactical @td3377 Grab a lance, straddle that pour and show us how easy you bake. 2 likes

  -  td3377 @laruetactical been working in a integrated steel mill for 23 years, I've seen every process from the 1000' ore boats to the steel haulers carrying it down the line.

  -  craigthomas4699 @td3377 Yes, you can. You just can't call it an integrated mill. There is a plenty large enough scrap stream to support the non-integrated model. Nucor proves it. I think you're making a strawman argument with your baking of a frozen pie. They're still making the pie, they just aren't grinding the wheat into flour to make the dough, they're buying flour.

  -  laruetactical @td3377 ... My dad would get in the truck, point towards you and say "Mark, that sumbitch don't know how to act." 1 like

rrandall40 Nucor plant is right down the road from me, they are a great partner in the community, and a hell of a company to work for.