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The steel industry in Italy originated in the 19th century.


History

The beginnings of the steel industry in Italy were strongly influenced by the modest presence of underground iron ore and coal in particular, that occurred in 1880, an increasing import of pig iron from abroad. With the widespread application of iron in the railways and in the mechanical industry in general witnessed the slow renewal of the old ironworks (with the adoption of Martin-Siemens furnaces and converters from scrap iron). The regions of Italy that contributed most to the expansion of production were
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, Lombardy,
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, Tuscany. In 1884 the Italian state, including the potential strategic role of the steel industry, built a large modern steel mill for that period at
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. At the beginning of the 20th century, to improve the use of iron ore national and limit dependence on foreign, were built some coke furnaces for the production of cast iron: in
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(with the company Elba) in 1902, in
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and finally in
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. During this period, in 1905, the company
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was founded with the support of the Italian government, and acquired the management of the plants in
Piombino Piombino is an Italian town and ''comune'' of about 35,000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno (Tuscany). It lies on the border between the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Elba Island and at the northern side of Maremma. Ove ...
,
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,
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, and later, of the largest plant of
Bagnoli Bagnoli is a western seaside quarter of Naples, Italy, well beyond the confines of the original city. It is beyond Cape Posillipo and, thus, looking on the coast of the Bay of Pozzuoli. Industrialization and World War II Bagnoli was one of ...
, to create a large group of steel production and construction of ships.


See also

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Società Italiana Acciaierie Cornigliano Società Italiana Acciaierie Cornigliano (SIAC) was an Italian steelworks company. History It was established in 1934 to group the Ansaldo steelworks - started up in 1898 and centered on the Genoa Campi plant. In the same year the company pas ...
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Ilva (company) Ilva S.p.A. is an Italian steel company that for much of the 20th century was Italy's largest steel producer and one of the largest in Europe. In June 2017, Arcelor Mittal became the chief shareholder. On 23 April 2021, capital was infused by t ...
* Massimo Bondi *
Oscar Sinigaglia Oscar Sinigaglia was an Italian engineer and industrialist who was born into the Roman Senigaglia family on October 20, 1877. Life In 1893, at the age of sixteen, he took over the management of his family's failing business, the ''Ferriere di ...
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Enrico Bondi Enrico Bondi (born 5 October 1934 in Arezzo) is an Italian administrator. Although he graduated in Chemistry, Bondi has extensive experience of re-structuring companies in financial ill-health. Most notably, he took charge of Parmalat and its ...


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