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Show iron producing: capacity by 300 nnn ' net tons. Production capacity w , increased in May of 1951 bv thl addition through lease of an kiif' blast furnace which was erectPrt during the war near the Iront plant, Mr. Makin explained. '' The furnace, now owned bv Kalser-Frazer Parts Corporation was brought to Utah from Joliet' Illinois, at the request of the gov ' emment, and had not been in pro duction since May, 1949. '( down in August, 1950, for the rebuilding re-building job. The work of tearing down and rebuilding the ovens has taken a little more than one year. There are 56 coke ovens in two batteries at the Ironton plant south of Provo. The first battery of 33 ovens was built and put into operation originally in 1923 when the Ironton plant first began production. pro-duction. This battery was rebuilt in 1936, Mr. Makin said. In another major development this year, the Ironton plant, Utah's first commercially successful producer pro-ducer of pig iron, increased its pig Rebuilding of Coke Ovens At Ironton Now Completed Rebuilding of the Number 2 battery bat-tery of 23 coke ovens at the Iron-ton Iron-ton plant of Geneva Steel Company, Com-pany, a U. S. Steel subsidiary, was completed this month and the ovens are now back in operation, Harold B. Makin, general superintendent super-intendent of the Ironton plant, said today. The battery was built originally origin-ally in January, 1928, and operated continuously until it was shut |