New Zealand Steel is a large steel factory located at Glenbrook, New Zealand. Constructed in the 'Think Big' era of New Zealand industrialisation, it uses a unique method of producing steel from ironsand, abundant on the west coast of the North Island. The site produces about 650,000 tonnes of steel a year, and supplies most of the steel used in New Zealand. Steel framework Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ... Glenbrook is a rural and industrial area in the Franklin district of New Zealand. ... Alternative meanings at Think Big (disambiguation) Think Big was a interventionist state economic strategy sponsored by the New Zealand Prime Minister, Rob Muldoon and his New Zealand National Party in the early 1980s. ... Industrialisation (or industrialization) or an industrial revolution (in general, with lowercase letters) is a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state. ... The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ...
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New Zealand Steel (http://www.nzsteel.co.nz/nz/go/about-new-zealand-steel/operations/glenbrook-steel-site)
In keeping with the newness of the process and the size of the NewZealand market, the Glenbrook plant was designed initially to produce only 135,000 tonnes of iron and steel a year.
Despite considerable efforts by the DSIR and the NewZealandSteel Company, degradation of the green pellets could not he prevented and it was realised that the ore feed would have to take some other form.
Nevertheless, the NewZealandSteel board was persuaded by its technologists to proceed with a three-day trial in May 1972.
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