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I know that steel isn't aluminum but the mini mill for steel changed everything: Here is a current example of marketing hype around this: https://www.primetal

I know that steel isn't aluminum but the mini mill for steel changed everything: Here is a current example of marketing hype around this: https://www.primetals.com/portfolio/mini-mills/mini-mills-for-long-products https://www.primetals.com/portfolio/mini-mills/mini-mills-fo... They arent new, but they did kill big steel in America: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/no-inventions-no-innovations-a-history https://www.construction-physics.com/p/no-inventions-no-inno... (long but a great read). I would have thought that aluminum would have gone this way as well.

bell-cot 2y ago
Again, IANAM...but an aluminum smelter produces bulk metallic aluminum from ores (generally aluminum oxide, Al2O3). Vs. the input to a steel mini-mill is almost all bulk & scrap steel (not ire ore), and its output is various steel products - bars, beams, pipes, rebar, wire, sheets, and such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_mill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_mill