Abstract
The blast furnace plant at the Showa Steel Works is inherited on the 1st. June, 1933. from the Anzan Iron Works, which was formerly belonged to the South Manchuria Railway Company.
The first campaign of the No. 1 furnace was biown in on the 29th. April 1919. At present we are operating 3 furnaces, No. 1, 2 & 3, rated at 350, 400 & 5 Ctens output per day respectively.
We are given lots of natural resources for iron industry, but they are rather minor quality. The success in the dressing process for lean ore introduced ainter as main burden, which is so much siliceous, friable and finely, that we are often disturbed our uniform opstion by the big amount of slag and flue dust. Coke is also not strong anough for blast furnace use.
We have had so many years of difficulties against these bad conditions. But after experience, step by step, with the improvements of raw materials, especially by the merits of sinter, we have arrived at pretty good conditions, Producing about 1, 350tons of pig iron daiiy.
