The World’s High-Tech Steel Industry is in Indonesia

We need to know a lot about iron, steel, and how to process them in the industrial sector. Furthermore, the demand for these two critical items is increasing in tandem with the community’s demands. Before learning about the processing of iron and steel, it’s important to understand the distinction between the two in this industry.

Iron is the second-most abundant metal in the earth’s crust, behind aluminum. Elemental iron reacts with both water and oxygen. The surface of new iron is gray, however, oxidized iron changes color.

Carbonates (siderite), sulfides (pyrite), and oxides make up iron ore (magnetite, hematite, and limonite). Metal, unlike iron, is made by combining several metals. Metals such as iron, phosphorus, sulfur, manganese, carbon, silicon, and trace amounts of nitrogen, oxygen, and aluminum are examples. Others employ alloys containing molybdenum, niobium, chromium, nickel, boron, and chromium.

Carbon alloy is a key component in the production of steel. The purpose is to increase the tensile strength and hardness of the material.  Generally used to produce tools such as hoes, crowbars, sickles, and other implements.

International Steel Industry

President Joko Widodo opened the high-tech steel facility Hot Strip Mill 2 (HSM 2) owned by PT Krakatau Steel (Persero) Tbk (Jokowi).  PT Krakatau Steel’s Hot Strip Mill 2 is cutting-edge technology in the steel industry.

PT Krakatau Steel’s Hot Strip Mill 2 employs cutting-edge technologies in the steel industry. There are just two of them in the world. The steel industry of PT Krakatau Steel has a production capacity of 1.5 million tons of hot-rolled coil (HRC) per year. This is Indonesia’s first factory capable of producing high-quality HRC.

We will be able to supply domestic steel needs by operating high-tech steel factories. As a result, there will be no more imports. As a result, the country’s steel imports, which are now ranked second among Indonesia’s imported commodities, will be suppressed. With the hope of saving Rp29 trillion in foreign exchange per year in the future.