Iron ore, the fundamental ingredient of steel, needs to be reduced in blast furnace to remove it of impurities

Monitoring iron production in the blast furnace control room

Casting steel bloom

Interior view of flat steel pickling line. Pickling is a treatment used to remove impurities, rust, and scale from the steel’s surface

In a hot rolling mill solidified steel is reheated to a high temperature and rolled between rotating cylinders to reduce its thickness

Control panel in HDG-1 shop at Novolipetsk (NLMK Group)

Close-up of hot slab in the continuous casting process

Stacking packaged galvanised steel coils