How to Use pig iron in a Sentence

pig iron

noun
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  • The spot market price of pig iron in the U.S. is about 70% higher since the start of the year.
    — Bob Tita, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Its wood is as hard as pig iron and has been put to such uses as golf club heads and wagon wheel hubs.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 Oct. 2021
  • But, Goncalves said tariffs on pig iron could just slow the sale but not stop it completely.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • For years, one of USM’s main assets has been Metalloinvest, which ships pig iron around the world.
    — Justin Scheck, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
  • But Russia also is a big aluminum producer, and a source of pig iron, used to make steel.
    — Tom Krisher and Kelvin Chan, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The trenches resembled a litter of suckling piglets, and thus a nickname was born: pig iron.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • These efforts yielded only pig iron, which had to be decarbonized to make steel.
    — Helen Raleigh, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
  • To give the hull ballast so the ship wouldn’t capsize, more than four hundred tons of pig iron and gravel stones were lowered through the hatches into the dark, dank, cavernous hold.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Ukraine is the world’s largest exporter of sunflower seed oil and a significant exporter of wheat, pig iron, maize and barley.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The primary imports from Ukraine tend to be pig iron, iron ore, sunflower oil, soybeans, seamless iron tubes and pipes.
    — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Both Russia and Ukraine are exporters of steel products and raw materials such as coking coal and pig iron.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Steelmakers have been using more scrap in their furnaces to lessen their reliance on pig iron, helping drive scrap prices higher in recent weeks.
    — Bob Tita, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Pig iron supplies have tightened since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended shipments from the two countries, which have been the world’s biggest sellers of pig iron.
    — Bob Tita, WSJ, 28 June 2022
  • The new projects are in addition to projects which will expand the production of a another material rich in nickel called nickel pig iron.
    — Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • My company, Stelco , located in Ontario, has capacity of a million tons a year of pig iron, of which less than 10% is now being used.
    — WSJ, 6 Apr. 2022
  • While Russia’s top exports are energy-related, it’s also a major exporter of semi-finished iron, pig iron and wheat.
    — al, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The ironworks had provided pig iron used in making Confederate supplies.
    — al, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Chairman Mao decreed that China should produce more steel: as a result, much of the country’s existing stocks of the metal were melted down in backyard furnaces which produced poor quality pig iron.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • He also was involved in the manufacture of charcoal, chemicals and pig iron (product of a blast furnace then made into cast iron by removing impurities).
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2020
  • There's a blast furnace, but there is also the production of pig iron, an intermediate product; the continuous caster, which creates large slabs; and the rolling mill, which flattens those slabs to a customer's specifications.
    — Glenn Kessler, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
  • There’s a blast furnace, but there is also the production of pig iron, an intermediate product; the continuous caster, which creates large slabs; and the rolling mill, which flattens those slabs to a customer’s specifications.
    — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
  • Steel Dynamics, which has facilities located in the U.S. and in Mexico, produces steel products, liquid pig iron, and processes and sells ferrous and nonferrous scrap.
    — Aisha Al-Muslim, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Since coal fires required a different sort of cookware, investment poured into brass and iron, hastening the development of pig iron—hastening, that is, the onset of the Industrial Revolution.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020

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