140 tons of steel from scrap per hour

From the air: The Georgsmarienhuette
140 tons of steel per hour
Georgsmarienhütte. Even the Georgsmarienhuette is one of the landmarks of the region, which we present in our air picture series.

The green DC-electric-furnace is a kind of symbol of the Georgsmarienhütte. The steel is melted but not only there but also processed.

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That will work here is not difficult to see: smoke rises, and trains run on tracks. Since 1856 is produced in the Georgsmarienhütte steel. Founder of the company was King George V of Hanover. After he and his wife Marie's work is named, originally Georg-Marien-mining and was Hüttenverein.



Over the decades, ownership and name changed again and again. Its present name, the company since 1993. Then bought Juergen Grossmann, CEO of RWE now, the steel mill for the price of two symbol DM

A year later, production was switched from the blast furnace on the DC electric arc furnace. Since then, instead of steel from raw materials like coal and iron ore is produced from scrap. 140 tonnes are processed per hour in the green electric furnace, which has become the symbol of the company. He is in the middle of the image to see and be seen on the rising smoke. Besides, other manufacturing facilities to Georgsmarienhütte, as the final operations of the electric furnace. In them, the steel will be checked and loaded.

In the hall above the left half of the companies is the final rolling mill, in the smaller building right next to it is ground and polished steel bars. The bright steel is produced, among other things for the automotive industry. This industry is in addition to their supplier industries forgings, springs and roller bearing industry is among the main customers of the steel mill.

Striking is also the glass chimney right next to the electric furnace. Through him the filtered exhaust air from entering the atmosphere. As a "glassy" it is called, because the exhaust gases are continuously monitored. If the pollutant concentration is too high, the labor inspectorate is immediately notified.

Left of the electric furnace are to see the administration building, directly below the power station with a semi-circular roof. Train tracks run right down onto the site. Them on the scrap from the Osnabrück harbor to Georgsmarienhütte is brought.

In the upper right corner is the steel plant to the end. There is on the former industrial area resulting Köckner surfaces seen.

This motif is available in the offices of the New Osnabrück Osnabrück newspaper in the Great on road widths and speed as well as in the Georgsmarienhütte office (at City Hall 12). A photographic print of size 20 x 30 cm costs € 14, 40 x 60 cm 26.50 €.