Currently, two EAFs are used at the facility to convert scrap to steel billets of various sizes.
The AK-47's barrel and bolt were milled out of a steel billet and hard chromed.
Also produced is cast iron ( 4% carbon), steel billet (8 to 15 cm square cross section).
In this process, a single cylinder shaped steel billet is heated where the bolster will be, and squeezed from the ends to create a bulge.
The new composite steel billet is then heated and hammered out ensuring that no air or dirt is trapped between the two layers of steel.
The steel billet was originally ordered as a shaft for one of the De Beers workshop machines.
In 1939, Copperweld would open its second factory in Warren, Ohio, manufacturing steel billets.
The car could almost be hewn from a steel billet.
This was used for steel billets and it would split the chip with one staggered groove per tooth.
Steel with these characteristics is produced by processing cast steel billets of appropriate size and then rolling them into plates of required thickness.