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Steelmaking is the second step in producing Steel from Iron Ore . In this stage, impurities such as Sulfur , Phosphorus , and excess Carbon are removed from the raw Iron , and alloying elements such as Manganese , Nickel , Chromium and Vanadium are added to produce the exact steel required.

The materials used in modern steelmaking are:


The original methods of producing steel were labour-intensive and highly skilled arts involving open crucibles, see Puddling , Crucible Steel .

Part of the Industrial Revolution was the development of large-scale steel manufacture, at first in a Puddling Furnace . The Bessemer Converter was the first successful mass steelmaking process, followed by the Open Hearth Furnace .

Modern steelmaking techniques include:



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