Steel mill

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Steel mill is a building in Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.

Name Cost Workers Production Consumption Pollution Energy Wattage Storage Structure Notes
Tool steel mill.png
Steel mill
See below Workers.png 500 Steel 43 t per workday Steel Power 33 MWh Power
Water 10.00 m3/day Water
Iron 200 t Iron
Coal 357 t Coal
39.90 tons/year 48 MWh 800 kW Iron 150 t Iron (import)
Coal 150 t Coal (import)
Steel 150 t Steel (export)
Access 5x footpath access
1x road access
6x rail access
4x Conveyor connection
4 x factory connection
1x high voltage wires
L/U 2

Background

A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. It may be an integrated steel works carrying out all steps of steelmaking from smelting iron ore to rolled product, but may also be a plant where steel semi-finished casting products are made from molten pig iron or from scrap.

Gameplay

A steel mill produces steel using coal and iron. It is available in the metallurgy menu, offers 500 positions for workers, and is typically the first test of a logistics system given its high resource usage rate.

Production

Iron resource flow chart

Iron is processed in the steel mill. The maximum daily production is 43 t per workday.

Storage

Steel may be stored in both small and medium open storage buildings.

Transportation

They can be transported by using open-hull trucks, trains using open-hull cargo wagons, or by forklifts.

Construction

RequirementsGroundworks
Workdays 9553 Workdays
Gravel 142 t Gravel
Steel 241 t Steel
Concrete 484 t Concrete
Asphalt 113 t Asphalt
Boards 47 t Boards
Bricks 141 t Bricks
Building
Asphalt 7.6 t Asphalt
Concrete 12 t Concrete
Gravel 9.4 t Gravel
Mechanisms: Excavator
(max. 1)
Needs workers No
(max. 392)