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Mini-factories

Author: Jacques ASTIER

Publication date: September 10, 2008

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3. Mini-plants from industrialized countries

Mini-plants originated in industrialized countries in two different ways, which we'll look at below, before looking at their geographical expansion, their various technical, economic and social aspects, and finally, trying to predict their future.

3.1 Historical development

This trend in the old industrial countries, i.e. Europe and North America, is in fact due to two quite different phenomena:

  • the first is that the growth of large mills into a group with capacities soon reaching and exceeding one million tonnes has led to a shift away from the production of special steels, which has led to the persistence and even growth of mini-factories for special steels; these factories began to develop as soon as the electric...

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