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An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ironworks is ironwo
The Iron Rolling Mill (Eisenwalzwerk), 1870s, by Adolph Menzel.
Casting at an iron foundry: From Fra Burmeister og Wain's Iron Foundry, 1885 by Peder Severin Krøyer
A South Wales iron mill in 1798
Blast furnaces of Třinec Iron and Steel Works.
Foundry
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A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the metal has solidi
Ironworks
…replaced former methods. An integrated ironworks in the 19th century usually included one or more blast furnaces and a number of puddling furnaces or a foundry with or without other kinds of ironworks. After the invention of the Bessemer process, converters became widespread, and the appellation steelworks…
The Iron Foundry, Burmeister & Wain, by Peder Severin Krøyer, 1885
A Foundryman, pictured by Daniel A. Wehrschmidt in 1899
Melting metal in a crucible for casting
A metal die casting robot in an industrial foundry