Materials · 1948

Basic oxygen steelmaking

Pure oxygen blown into iron makes a heat of steel in under an hour.

Robert Durrer demonstrated oxygen steelmaking at Gerlafingen, Switzerland, in 1948. VÖEST commercialized the LD process at Linz in 1952. It replaced open hearth and now makes about 70 percent of the world's steel.

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