EPW049775 ENGLAND (1936). The By-Product Plant at the Iron and Steel Works, Corby, 1936

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Title [EPW049775] The By-Product Plant at the Iron and Steel Works, Corby, 1936
Reference EPW049775
Date March-1936
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Place name CORBY
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District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 489923, 289474
Longitude / Latitude -0.67530593638738, 52.495384010537
National Grid Reference SP899895

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Friday 20th of December 2013 04:53:58 PM

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Herbert Brassert, a German-American engineer, designed the Corby plant, which used the local low-grade, rather acidic, iron ore. In circa 1937-8 Brassert built another new plant for the Nazi party at Salzgitter capable of producing a million tons of steel per annum following completion of construction. Brassert was said to have been involved with as much as twenty per cent of the globe's blast furnaces in the early-mid twentieth century.

[Source: Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction. The Making & Breaking of the Nazi Economy. Penguin Books, 2007, 235-6]

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Friday 20th of December 2013 04:54:41 PM