Step 1. Making Steel Rod

Making steel rod consists of using an electro arc furnace which uses a batch melting process. This produces batches of molten steel known as heats. The first step is to prepare buckets of scrap according to the needs of making C1006 rod. These are added to a charged furnace to insure there is a proper melt-in chemistry. The scrap must be layered in the bucket according to size and density to help with the formation of a liquid pool of steel. Once the liquid is at temperature it is poured into continuous casting billets. These billets are allowed to solidify and then are brought to a rolling mill. They are reduced to a rod the size of a pencil and then wound into large coils. This rod is now ready for the wire mill.