Grossmann also eliminated several layers of management. With fewer layers of management, the decisions are made on the shop floor, where there is the highest degree of knowledge. Two bag houses Georgsmarienh tte installed the 125-ton EAF from MAN GHH in 1993. Three shifts of workers operate the furnace 24 hours a day Monday through Friday. Alloyed steels cannot be cast as quickly as carbon, so there was no use in making the furnace much faster.
Workers feed only scrap to the furnace.
Germany exports a large portion of its scrap supply, Grossmann says. The furnace's bag-house system is perhaps its most notable feature. The furnace has two parallel exhaust lines leading to two large, separate bag houses. German company Beth GmbH supplied the system. When you look at our mill, you think it is a bag house with a little furnace next to it.