The plant also needed a continuous caster to replace the obsolete soaking pits and blooming mill in 1995.

The ingots are then heated in a soaking pit and hot rolled into slabs, billets, or blooms.

More soaking pits were installed as well as a plant to supply the BOP with oxygen.

The soaking pits were deep, electrk ally heated holes in which steel ingots were cooled, gently and slowly.

Soaking pits, a blooming mill, a Steckel mill, an down-coiler and finishing equipment were installed.

Thick red ingots of steel, big as gravestones, I knew, were coming from "soaking pits" to rolls, and getting flattened into blooms and billets.

At a computer keyboard in a comfortable office, he was recording the temperatures of 15-ton steel ingots immersed in the soaking pits where they are reheated.

This is done in a gas- or oil-fired soaking pit for larger workpieces and for smaller workpieces induction heating is used.

Modelling, estimation, and control of the soaking pit : an example of the development and application of some modern control techniques to industrial processes.

Further back, bevond the soaking pits for the ingots, the machinery of the rolling mill slammed and hummed, long shafts of hot steel stretching and forming.

In 2006 archaeologists found evidence of medieval leather tanning off Fumbally Lane and nearby New Street with wood-lined soaking pits and elaborate ditch systems.

For soaking pit firing the Urquhart-Bloom Spiral Baffle Burner is specially designed to produce intense turbulence giving rapid heating rates and even temperatures throughout the pit.

As part of a major modernization project, the replacement of older ingot casting, soaking pit and hot rolling facilities with an electric arc, continuous casting facility feeding our existing hot mill is underway.

"The newly purchased Lowellville Works was equipped with four open hearths, several soaking pits, a blooming mill, and bar mill, and the Youngstown Plant with eight sheet mills, a jobbing mill, and a 72" plate mill.