Summary - Canadian Industry Statistics

Definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in smelting iron ore and steel scrap to produce pig iron in molten or solid form; converting pig iron into steel by the removal, through combustion in furnaces, of the carbon in the iron.

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  These establishments may cast ingots only, or also produce iron and steel basic shapes, such as plates, sheets, strips, rods and bars, and other fabricated products. Electric arc furnace mini-mills are included. Establishments primarily engaged in producing ferro-alloys are also included.
  
  Example Activities:
  Bars, iron or steel, made in steel mills
  Blast furnaces
  Cold-rolled steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip), made in steel mills

  Exclusions

  Establishments primarily engaged in:
  operating coke ovens (32419, Other Petroleum and Coal Product Manufacturing)
  manufacturing iron and steel pipe and tube, from purchased metal (33121, Iron and Steel Pipes and Tubes Manufacturer.)