Heavy engineering made a return to one of the Black Countrys most historic industrial sites, when the 10-ton lid for a steelmaking crucible was delivered to a firm.
The six-metre diameter lid was so big it had to be transported overnight from Yorkshire to the Grazebrook Industrial Estate premises of Thermofax in Dudley, the company given the job of heat-treating it.
Thermofax is one of only two companies in the UK capable of handling such a large engineering fabrication, which will spend around 18 hours in a special oven to make the structure and its welds more stable so it can handle the high temperatures when it is used for steelmaking at the Tata Steel site in Scunthorpe.
It was manufactured by engineering giant Siemens, also based at Scunthorpe, and they chose Thermofax to carry out the heat treatment work.
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