Tata Steel wire rod mill, Scunthorpe, UK
Two thoughts are almost bound to be uppermost in the mind of any visitor to Tata Steel’s wire rod mill. One is sheer scale – from reheat furnace to end of the cooling line stretches some 250 metres. The second, requiring a little more calculation, is the realisation that as the rod is drawn the rate at which it travels accelerates dramatically – to something akin to the pace Usain Bolt achieved at the London Olympics. (…)
