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  1. Biggest Blast Furnace Starts Production

    Date released
    19 Jan 1956
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2597
    NoS ID
    046324
    Story no
    2 / 9

    Chairman of the Steel Company of Wales fires biggest blast furnace in Europe.

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  2. Iron and Steel Production (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the manufacture of iron and steel from iron ore, showing the process of reduction, using carbon as a reducing agent; the destructive distillation of coal through pyrolysis; the production of coke in...

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  3. Lighting-Up Time

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Ingot Pictorial
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    349380
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NFA Summary - Redbourn’s New No.2 Blast Furnace goes into production, October 1951. NFA synopsis: The tapping of the furnace and the first ladleful taken.

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  4. Furnace Overhead! A Stage in the Making of R.T.B. ‘Alphasil’ Cookley Works, Spring 1952

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Ingot Pictorial
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    349395
    Story no
    4 / 7

    NFA synopsis: The annealing plant furnace and the processes undertaken to produce Alphasil steel sheeting.

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  5. Big Step-Up

    Date released
    Feb 1955
    Series name
    Ingot Pictorial
    Issue no
    22
    NoS ID
    349459
    Story no
    4 / 6

    NFA synopsis: From 2-3 furnace operations - the end of the second phase of post-war development at Redbourn. The lighting up of the new blast furnace ceremony.

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  6. Synthetic Sapphire (1956 Film)

    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examples of synthetic sapphires in use. The manufacturing process. Ammonium alum is reduced in a furnace to aluminium oxide. After sifting through fine gauze the powder is melted in an oxyhydrogen flame in a...

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  7. Burning Tyre Furnace

    Date released
    1974
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    140
    NoS ID
    325585
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: Tyres are made to be tough, and it’s a tough job trying to get rid of them when their useful life has ended. A furnace with a tornado for a heart incinerates the tyres cleanly, and its...

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  8. The Other Man’s Job: Carbide in War

    Date released
    27 Mar 1944
    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/44; Paramount Issue No.: 1364
    NoS ID
    156700
    Story no
    1 / 2

    Processes in the manufacture of calcium carbide by the home front (formerly an imported commodity). Combination of lime and coke produces carbide, being heated electrically in a furnace, then water-cooled....

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  9. Into the Blue

    Date released
    Apr 1953
    Series name
    Ingot Pictorial
    Issue no
    15
    NoS ID
    349414
    Story no
    4 / 7

    NFA synopsis: Stour Vale works, in the Midlands, where a unique brand of steel is made - February 1953. The manufacture of blue planish steel sheets, used in naval vessels, including rolling, the blueing...

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  10. Burning Tyre Furnace

    Date released
    1974
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    140
    NoS ID
    329636
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Tyres are made to be tough, and it’s a tough job trying to get rid of them when their useful life has ended. A furnace with a tornado for a heart incinerates the tyres cleanly, and its...

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