`Basic oxygen furnace introduction in Austria`

Linz, Austria, 1958 commercial trial; mid-60s commercialization. Part of the productivity-revolution catalog.

I said it was the basic oxygen furnace, continuous casting, mini-mills. There's a lot of process technology. The basic oxygen furnace was first tried out in Linz, Austria around 1958, went commercial by the mid-60s. Continuous casting — the Japanese were doing it in the late 60s. By 1975, if you didn't have a continuous caster, you were a dinosaur.