| HISTORY
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| 1.11.1769 | Beginning of the building of the Ironworks Resita | ||
| 3.07.1771 |
Putting into operation the first two blast furnaces in Resita |
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| 1782 | A new blast furnace is built, it replaces one of the two furnaces built in 1771 | ||
| 1816 | The third blast furnace is built | ||
| 1846 | For the first time in Romania, the rolling technology is employed in Resita | ||
| 1850 | A new blast furnace is put into operation and the workshops are modernized | ||
| 1851 | In Resita the first railway rail in Romania is rolled | ||
| 1854 | The Austrian government leases the Resita Works to the railway company STEG, an international syndicate | ||
| 1857 | Beginning of the mill modernization work | ||
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| 1861 | Three blast furnaces, charcoal based, are put into operation | ||
| 1862 | The first tender locomotive STEG with coupled wheels is made | ||
| 1864 | Coal coking ovens are put into operation | ||
| 1868 | The first Bessemer converters are put into operation | ||
| 1870 | The mill for rolling tyres for waggon and locomotive wheels is built | ||
| 1872 | The first narrow gauge steam locomotives are made | ||
| 1876 | The Siemens Martin (open hearth) technology is employed for steelmaking | ||
| 1880 | The No. 4 blast furnace is put into operation | ||
| 1883 | Small power plants are built | ||
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| 1893 | The old blast furnaces are taken down and other two new blast furnaces are built instead | ||
| 1901 - 1904 | The hydroelectric power station "Grebla" is built | ||
| 1905 | The thermoelectric power station is built | ||
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| 1905 - 1906 | A new refractory material factory is built | ||
| 1907 - 1909 | The dam "Valiug" with a storage lake of 1.2 million m3 capacity is built | ||
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| 1909 | The rolling mills are modernized - two high reversing mill, plate mill, jobbing sheet mill, universal rolling mill, medium section mill, small section mill | ||
| 1910 | The 4 th American made blast furnace is put into operation | ||
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| 1914 | Rebuilding of the steel-melting plant - 4 open hearth furnaces with a hot metal mixer and a tilting electric furnace | ||
| 1920 | Foundation of the joint-stock company "Uzinele de Fier si Domeniile din Resita - UDR" | ||
| 1923 - 1926 | 2 blast furnaces are rebuilt | ||
| 1926 | The first normal gauge railway locomotive is made | ||
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| 1928 - 1930 | Two new rolling mills are installed - the wheel and the tyre mills are built | ||
| 1929 | Another electric furnace is built | ||
| 1934 | A new coke factory is built | ||
| 1936 | Foundation of the business group "Resita - Malaxa" | ||
| 1937 | By building of the no. 7 open hearth furnace the capacity of the steel plant is increased | ||
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| 1948 | The storage lake "Gozna - Valiug" with 10 million m3 capacity is built | ||
| 1952 | Beginning of the building of the soaking pit furnaces for the rolling mills | ||
| 1958 | The Siemens Martin steel plant is rebuilt, the small furnaces are replaced with 125 and 250 t furnaces; a new hot metal mixer is provided | ||
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| 1961 - 1962 | The 700 m3 blast furnaces are built; a pig casting machine is installed | ||
| 1962 | The storage lake "Secu" with 7 million
m3 capacity is built Development of the quarrying, preparation and transportation system for the process limestone The ore agglomeration plant is put into operation |
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| 1.04.1962 | Reorganization of the company "Combinatul Metalurgic Resita": splitting into two companies "Combinatul Siderurgic Resita" and "Intreprinderea Constructoare de Masini" | ||
| 1963 | The second pig casting machine is put into operation | ||
| 1964 | The lime factory is put into operation | ||
| 1966 | A new 250 t open hearth furnace is put into operation | ||
| 1967 | The medium section mill and the small section mill are rebuilt | ||
| 1968 | The second calcinator is put into operation at the burnt lime factory | ||
| 1969 | The new laboratory is put into operation at the steel plant | ||
| 1971 | The third 250 t open hearth furnace is put into operation at the Siemens Martin steel plant | ||
| 1978 |
The roughing and blooming mill is put into operation Outfit and modernization of the transportation department |
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| 1980 | End of th first stage of development of the hydroelectric and thermoelectric power systems | ||
| 1983 |
Start of the building work at a new coke chemical plant Start of the construction work at the hydroelectric power station "Nera Crainicel" |
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| 1986 | Process computers are implemented in the operation of the blast furnaces and the steel plant | ||
| 1991 | The blast furnaces and the iron ore aglomeration factory is shut down | ||
| 1995 | Start of the construction and erection work for the new electric steel plant | ||
| 1996 |
Celebration of 225 years of activity at the company |
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| 6-12-1998 |
Refining of the first heat in ladle-furnace |
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| 3-07-1999 |
Melting of the first charge in EAF (electric arc furnace) |
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| 16-08-2000 |
The privatization of C. S. Resita. Noble Ventures Inc. U.S.A. buys 94,4891 % of shares. | ||
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| RESITA 2000 | |||
