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The Northburn Steel Works in Coatbridge was built by the Steel Company of Scotland with the support of the Ministry of Munitions to meet demand for steel during the First World War. In the event, the war was over by the time the steelworks went into production in 1920. Coatbridge's largest steelworks, Northburn had three open hearth furnaces, each capable of making 40 tons of steel at a time. It also had a rolling mill powered by electricity rather than steam, a rarity at that time. In 1938, the company merged with William Baird and Company's Gartsherrie Iron Works to form Bairds and Scottish Steel. Pig iron was transported from Gartsherrie to feed the steel furnaces at Northburn. Both eventually closed in 1967.
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I bought an old steel garden bench while renovating I found the northburn steel , extremely solid . South Africa
i am renovating a 1950s mobile rack sawbench when cleaning up a piece of steel on the structure a came across the wording NORTHBURN STEEL
I have recently purchased a set of two gates for my driveway. They are extremely heavy, solid and well built. They are stamped 'NORTHBURN STEEL' Very interesting history of the steel works.
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