Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, Düsseldorf, 1930 - steel works and Martin Process

A beautifully produced "Allegemeiner Führer" or General Guide to the United Steelworks published in 1930. Printed at their own Press the cover and title pages exhibit a very modern and contemporary approach to the typography and design.

 

Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG had been formed in 1926 to create a major industrial conglomeration of German coal, iron and steel producers and it included some famous concerns such as Thyssen AG, Phoenix AG für Bergbau und Hüttenbetrieb, Rheinische Stahlwerke, Rhein-Elbe-Union GmbH, Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG, Bochumer Verein, and the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG. Several equally famous companies declined to join, most notably Krupps, Hoescht and Mannesmann. In the post-war years the concern was broken up with several of the older concerns reappearing.

 

These images show various activities in some of the concerns main steel works, including the Martin Process furnaces.

 

Hoerder Verein Martin Stahlwerk

Bochumer Verein

Roheisen- Einsatz in der Martin ofen

Werk Höntrop

Abgiessen des Martin Ofens

Hütte Ruhrort-Meiderich

Neuer Talbot Ofen im Martin Stahlwerk

 

Hoerder Verein Martin Stahlwerk

Steel mill

Bochum

Pig iron use in the Martin furnace

Höntrop plant

Casting off the Martin oven

Ruhrort-Meiderich

New Talbot furnace in the Martin steelworks

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