Hennessy also likes Tokyo Tekko, which makes electric furnaces and structural steel for the construction industry.
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Another nearby building is still a wrangled mess, with structural steel rods jutting out of blackened stone.
The conglomerate was already a major producer of structural steel for construction, forming beams out of melted scrap.
The structural steel rolls in from a loading bay, and machines fabricate it into parts that are welded together to form the frame.
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Made of little more than an aluminum structural frame, steel decking and glass, the rectangular and almost-completely transparent house is spartan.
For legs and other structural elements, steel is often a better bet.
He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.
The automaker still buys some basic steel from outside suppliers, but when it comes to complex curved body panels or important structural components, the company prefers to use its own steel.
Instead of welding several pieces of steel together as reinforcement (which adds weight), those important structural elements are heated to 900 degrees Fahrenheit, then stamped into the desired shape and rapidly cooled almost simultaneously.
The automaker still buys steel from outside suppliers, but when it comes to complex curved body panels or important structural components, the company prefers to use its own recipes.
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