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doc03

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4. Steel plants don't employ thousands of people today. Blast furnaces are a relic of the

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Sat Jul 26, 2025, 10:24 PM

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past. When I started in the mill the company I worked for had 19000 employees, today I would be
surprised if it would require 1/10 th as many today. We had two coke plants back then and I think 6 blast furnaces
operating.Today they melt recycled scrap in an electric arc furnace and coke is not used. The work today is done from
a touch screen computer.

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