ID: 31166Iron samples are taken from the blast furnace tap Free downloadKeywords thyssenkruppGermanyBruckenhausen Plantblast furnaceirontapping-off processCategories Germany, thyssenkrupp AG, Bruckenhausen Plant (thyssenkrupp AG), Production Process, Country, Producer, Facility, IronmakingRelated itemsDelivering rail beams to customers Researchers inspecting a full scale steel sample in the facility’s R&D centre Inspecting steel slab in storage Workers in the control room Worker monitoring production from inside the control room Iron ore, the fundamental ingredient of steel, needs to be reduced in blast furnace to remove it of impurities Testing tensile strength of a steel sample Operator in full personal protection equipment (PPE) at the zinc bath on the hot-dip galvanising line