Japan Steel Works heavy-section forging capability

It had been forged in Japan by Japan Steel Works — one of the only places in the world that had both the steelmaking technology and a big enough forging press to do this. Alcoa doesn't forge a lot of steel, and Wyman Gordon in Cleveland — you'd have to make the steel over in Japan and then bring it over here. The Japanese have maybe thirty-thousand-ton forging presses. So they had forged the pieces. Usually you make something a little bit longer — they call it a prolongation — so you can cut it off and cut out tensile specimens, Charpys, you can do all your quality control tests on the heat treatment. They did that, except it failed the mechanical properties after the heat treatment. Darn. I could scrap it — that's only going to cost me twenty, thirty million dollars — or I can just re-heat-treat it.