Iron, Steel and Ferroalloy Manufacturing

This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing hot metal, pig iron, and silvery pig iron from iron ore and iron and steel scrap, converting pig iron, scrap iron, and scrap steel into steel, and hot-rolling iron and steel into basic shapes such as plates, sheets, strips, rods, bars, and tubing. It also includes merchant blast furnaces and by-product or beehive coke ovens. Sample business functions include armor plates, axles (rolled or forged), and iron and steel bars, all made in steel works or rolling mills, as well as beehive coke oven products, steel billets, blackplate, blast furnace products, blooms, and car wheels (rolled).

This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in producing welded or seamless steel pipe and tubes, as well as heavy riveted steel pipe from purchased materials. Sample business functions include boiler tubes (wrought), welded conduit, lock-joint conduit, heavy riveted conduit, seamless steel pipe, welded wrought pipe, lock-joint wrought pipe, heavy riveted wrought pipe, seamless steel tubes, cold-drawn stainless tubing (mechanical and hypodermic sizes), and welded wrought well casing.