Over the years Mike Hicks has been very lucky to handle, buy and sell items made of cast iron, read more to find out why its ...

Crude cupola pig. No. 7. Hammered crude steel ... this operation imparts oxygen to the impurities always present in cast iron, converting them into compounds which combine with the sodium ...

[Sir Henry Bessemer]’s method for turning pig iron into steel was a great boon to industry because it made production faster and more cost-effective. More importantly, [Bessemer]’s process ...

The iron was made at 1500 degrees Celcius in huge 60 foot high furnaces before being cast in beds of sand as a series of bars called pigs. The iron was used in engineering, shipbuilding and to ...