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At one time, the manufacture of metals was the sole preserve of single craftsmen. Blacksmiths worked all day in front of a large fire, hammer in one hand and an anvil at his feet. As...

From inauspicious beginnings, we have come to not only love, but rely on 'rustless steel', or as we now know it, stainless steel. When it was discovered and developed, thanks in no small part to...

No matter how much we may appreciate having a smartphone, tablet, high-speed broadband and easy access to a skinny latte with extra foam, we don’t know anybody that doesn’t break into a great, big smile...

Many years back West Yorkshire Steel purchased an Avery Izod Impact Testing Machine from Coghlan Bright Steel in Leeds.  This machine dating back to the early 1900s has a wonderful history which was provided to...

Without overloading on nostalgia, it seems many things that were once considered unremarkable are today quite unacceptable, most notably, smoking in pubs. Although the law is only 9 years old, smoke-filled pubs seem completely alien....

Steel, literally speaking, is a heavyweight. It has been supporting British industry since the idea of industry was invented and it’s something that we at West Yorkshire Steel continue to be very proud to have...

It’s an unusual quirk of the language that we can take one word as a description and all of a sudden it’s taken on an entirely new meaning. Google for instance, was originally a noun...

Growing up, we all used to know a kid that was 'as hard as nails', which we understood to mean that they were pretty tough, but did we ever really question how hard that was?...

There are a few key times when the world of metallurgy takes a giant leap forward, as opposed to the incremental ‘small steps’ that usually define progress. In recent years, we’ve been able to identify...