Planta General Savio (SOMISA) en Ramallo - Buenos Aires 1971

Bs. As .: Report where the journalist Tico Rodríguez Paz comments: "We are in SOMISA, at this moment located in the gasometer of the company that is 100 meters high. SOMISA is located in Punta Argerich, Ramallo district, in the province of Buenos Aires. The company has an area of ​​560 manufacturing hectares, in addition, it currently produces 1,100,000 tons of its own steel per year but we clarify that it delivers 1,700,000 tons of rolled products to the consumer market, supplying that difference with the import of semi-finished products that are processed in the plant. This is what SOMISA produces, look at billets, rails and profiles, sheets that are currently being wound, tinplate like the one you see used for packaging, of course all this comes from Here. Iron wires in a primitive state and mineral coal like this one that we are observing at the moment, the important thing is to go and see the process that occurs to get to what we saw previously. and. Schematically, the company can be divided so that you can better understand it into 5 operating units, for example this is the coking plant, which is the sector that transforms coal into coke to serve as fuel for the blast furnace in charge of reducing iron ore transforming it into pig iron. , that is, first fusion iron. We are already in the steel mill, here the pig iron is transformed into steel by adding scrap and ferroaliations, you see. From here we go to the rolling section where the steel is processed, subsequently giving it the different forms necessary for commercialization and subsequent industrialization. Obviously from here come billets, rails, profiles, plates and tin. As I was commenting, this lasts approximately 2 minutes, you see in what way you are molding it, you are giving it the appropriate form. "Report to an operator, in which he is asked: -Sir, when I entered what was it? (Answer: It was an ingot) -And now? (Responds: Now it is transformed into a bar of 25 meters of stock) -Afterwards it is a rail? Then the journalist comments: - "Finally, after having visited the company from the inside, I must tell you that we reached a conclusion, SOMISA manufactures the necessary steel to make from these nails to that ship, we saw everything as you did, with Argentine eyes. "(Tico Rodríguez Paz)
Date: 1/9/1971
Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds
Film Code: C-00852

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