Our industrial past: Modern siderurgy in Bizkaia

At a time of great international demand, especially from Great Britain, the technological innovations arising from the Industrial Revolution boosted, due to its abundance and quality, the demand for iron from Biscay. This phenomenon had an immediate effect on the iron and steel production methods that had been used in our territory for centuries. In just a few decades, the traditional model of ore reduction in forges would be surpassed by a new way of transformation, already fully industrial, modern and competitive at world level. The low furnace gave way to the blast furnace.
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