Steel Asia Manufacturing Industry Case Study
“We’RE raising the BAR.”
This is Steel Asia Manufacturing Corporation’s marketing tagline to showcase their sole product – rebars. Rebars are cylindrical bars of steel used by the construction industry for building the structures of every building, house, road, or project that they do.
The experience at Steel Asia Manufacturing Corporation exposed me to the steel manufacturing industry. The said field trip was not only very educational; is also filled with fun. As a future chemical engineer of the society, I explored one prospect field that I can venture on through the plant tour that we had.
The group went to the site by 2:00 pm. Before entering the site, we are all required to wear a hard hat as a safety precaution to protect us from the …show more content…
The billets are subjected to horizontal forces and vertical forces alternately until the desired size and shape of the steel rebars are obtained. Ten rotating stands are needed to produce their smallest-sized rebar. As they go along the rolls, the billets decreases in diameter and increases in length. As seen during production, steel scales are rejected from the stands as they go through the line. These waste scrap are also sold. At the end of the rotating rolls, the rebars are quenched with pressurized cooling water to cool them. Further cooling using an air-cooling system is done to develop the internal structures of the rebars. Starting from the outermost layer, the steel is composed of layers of martensite, austenite, bainite, ferrite, and …show more content…
Their main operation is heating the steel billets and compressing it in a series of rotating stands. Like other companies, they rely much on importation of raw materials. This reality is somehow saddening because manufacturing plants usually just imports raw materials from other countries and then reprocess it here. I understand the practical viewpoint of this move but this scenario seems to limit the capability of the country to produce from its own resources. Nonetheless, I admire the company’s vision to address this concern by merging with the Calaca smelting plant. I believe that Philippines can also produce our own steel from iron ores. The automation is the plant is impressive but I recommend that the operators’ level of education match their current
This is Steel Asia Manufacturing Corporation’s marketing tagline to showcase their sole product – rebars. Rebars are cylindrical bars of steel used by the construction industry for building the structures of every building, house, road, or project that they do.
The experience at Steel Asia Manufacturing Corporation exposed me to the steel manufacturing industry. The said field trip was not only very educational; is also filled with fun. As a future chemical engineer of the society, I explored one prospect field that I can venture on through the plant tour that we had.
The group went to the site by 2:00 pm. Before entering the site, we are all required to wear a hard hat as a safety precaution to protect us from the …show more content…
The billets are subjected to horizontal forces and vertical forces alternately until the desired size and shape of the steel rebars are obtained. Ten rotating stands are needed to produce their smallest-sized rebar. As they go along the rolls, the billets decreases in diameter and increases in length. As seen during production, steel scales are rejected from the stands as they go through the line. These waste scrap are also sold. At the end of the rotating rolls, the rebars are quenched with pressurized cooling water to cool them. Further cooling using an air-cooling system is done to develop the internal structures of the rebars. Starting from the outermost layer, the steel is composed of layers of martensite, austenite, bainite, ferrite, and …show more content…
Their main operation is heating the steel billets and compressing it in a series of rotating stands. Like other companies, they rely much on importation of raw materials. This reality is somehow saddening because manufacturing plants usually just imports raw materials from other countries and then reprocess it here. I understand the practical viewpoint of this move but this scenario seems to limit the capability of the country to produce from its own resources. Nonetheless, I admire the company’s vision to address this concern by merging with the Calaca smelting plant. I believe that Philippines can also produce our own steel from iron ores. The automation is the plant is impressive but I recommend that the operators’ level of education match their current