ATV Today: 09.12.1976: Scrap Metal, West Bromwich

Summary

Peter Plant report from a West Bromwich scrap metal factory that recycles the metal to make steel shot.

Year:

1976

Duration:

0:04:44

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see the piles of scrap being lifted and then loaded into the furnace. After heating the molten steel is poured off and with the introduction of water it is turned into tiny shot balls. These are then graded. Peter Plant talks to the firm's managing director, John Moore about the uses of steel shot to clean forgings and castings and the future demand for such a material.


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