Germany To China: Behind The Biggest Industrial Transport In History | The Earths Riches
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2019
- From spaceships to mobile phones, metals are an integral part of the objects that make up the world around us and that we use in everyday life. The metal industry is a major component of the world economy, and mining takes place all over the world. Yet their extraction and refinement is still an arduous and dangerous process, not only for the workers but for the surrounding environment.
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The factory is hardcore. It’s like working for Sauron. Fire everywhere.
i feel bad for laughing but lmao, its like the pits in isengard lol.
Sauron /ˈsaʊrɒn/[1] is the title character[a] and main antagonist[3] of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
In the same work, he is identified as the Necromancer, mentioned in Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. In Tolkien's The Silmarillion (published posthumously by Tolkien's son Christopher Tolkien),[4] he is also described as the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. Tolkien noted that the Ainur, the "angelic" powers of his constructed myth, "were capable of many degrees of error and failing", but by far the worst was "the absolute Satanic rebellion and evil of Morgoth and his satellite Sauron".[5]
One does not simply walk into Mordor. The ground is fire and the air is a poisonous fume. All while the eye of Sauron gazes down on you.
And the Eye of Sauron surveils everything ......
It’s where Luke burned himself
Guy worked 7 days a week for the last 20 years and not a single accident, boss gave him air conditioning lol
I know, seems strange to see happy workers in these conditions. The land can no longer support the amount of agriculture needed to sustain the population, the eels are gone, the water is filthy, the air can't be much better...
@@looper9264 trust me I used to live in shanghai and the air is filthy, most stores you see are just stands, and the schools look like prison
@Zechariah Justin Scam.
This video needs more love. It deserves to be front page.
@@jimmydcricket5893 I reported him
I like how the scrap fisher man has put a nice jacket on for the interview. Cheers to you and my you have better luck fishing
His wife was pretty fine too
I like how the narrator alters the ambience of his tone to make it sound like he’s talking over the loud noise while translating 😂
I love how that guy has a suit on as hes fishing for scrap metal in a river
dressed up for 15 minutes of fame on RUclips
Poor in China buy second hand clothes. Winters are harsh and poor cannot afford suits. Second coat jacket might be 10 RMB about $1.5.
@Sheridan Isashitstain I was just saying how I like him doing it dressed up it be cool if everyone always was for their job dont be so defensive I love living in the usa is pretty nice
Moved to Shanghai dressed like a fisherman to catch eel. Now he's fishing for iron dressed in a suit. Capitalism.
I came to the comments to find this
Crazy to think how different things must be now almost 20 years since this doc was made. The fisherman looked like he was in his 40s, so he would now be approaching his 60s. He's probably sold his boat at this point. His son is now an adult. All of the younger steel workers shown are now middle age and the middle age workers are becoming older workers.
The overly positive outlook is beautifully obfuscatory. I'll take mindless self indulgence, over stark raving reality, any day, though. So, I guess, keep it up...
From what I hear, steel mills are fullfilling jobs , death is only of greater sadness than a live without fullfillment
I work at a foundry celebrating their 125th anniversary. Five generations of steel. And the furnaces light every night. And the cranes keep flying over head.
...a lot of effort goes into environmental remediation and recycling, now, though.
This was in 2004. At the rate of development, I wonder what it looks like now. Would be nice to see a followup.
China alone produce 53% of World's total steel.
@@Sammy58328 afraid so its near that acording to forge magazine, even with the downturn from the world wide pandemic the industry still managed to grow most of this carried on the back of chinas steel production, but its not often as high quality as japanese or western micro batch steels, or that in the west there isn't new equiptment being put into service, sdi is putting in what will be the widest thin roll mill in the world in texas, and many of the largest presses or steel making equiptment is made in germany at schuler, sheffield forgemasters, or danali bridai of italy, you also have places in the usa though that make presses though like ajax ceco chambersburg erie, beckwood, and minster to name a few, and national machineery, as well as morgan engineering of ohio.
Not all steel is made thr same tho. Thats why the whole world imports German or US steel. Sometime projects need extremly high quality steel. It would be interesting to know if China can produce this high quality steel as well now.
@@sblbb929 some of it yes, not all of it is garbage, and they are getting investers from of course western companies because of the cost of production and large amount of workers, and they are building some of the largest forging equiptment, like largest forging presses, and seamless ring rollers, though the largest works and blast furnace is in korea, though I belive the second largest integrated mill is one in Alabama or Georgia, at least that is the information that google gives, and there is the larest thing roll plate operation is in texas being brought online by steel dynamics, which was born and raised from right here in north east indiana
most of the large equiptment makers though for the largest furnaces are in europe, like danali bredai, and sms group, though there are places here in the usa as well as other parts of the world that build differant sorts of presses, types of furnaces or heat treat sorts of stuff, and large presses often have parts that are usually found to be cast by forgemasters in sheffild england, or china, but there are as you say a few companies that can pour the super large parts in steel foundries, we have the largest foundry company in the world though as far as amount of people employed and that would be wapaca which has plants all over including one in tell city indiana which is somewhere in southern indiana I think in the heel of indiana across the river from kentucky, they mostly make auto and brake parts they cast though, and I think stuff for john deer actually indiana lead the nation in steel production for the last 2 years I think
@@sblbb929 China use almost 96 percent of their steel. Those mega structures in Beijing are made with Chinese steel. Their warships , cargo ships, bridges , skyscrapers they all use Chinese steel.
The guy with the boat who only makes 200 euro a month, but its enough to provide for his family is doing a great job. There ain't nothing wrong with small business man aslong as you're putting food on the table and shoes on their feet you're doing you job sir!
So this is how my local harbor freight gets its steel.
Edward Duran 📠
This is how Chinese factories get there steel.
Edward Duran 👀
I've never seen any harbor freight sell steel?
@@user-yg2up4lg3r Pittsburgh Tools aren't actually made in Pittsburgh, they're made in China. Fine if you're just looking for a prybar, don't get anything serious like a ball joint press. Couldn't figure out why it kept pressing my ball joints in sideways...take it off, look at it, the C clamp has now opened up to more of an L clamp bc the steel is absolute shit.
My grandfather worked at that furnace. Back in the day when it still was in Dortmund, Germany. We lovingly called her "Westfalenhütte" and she was well known around germany for her excellent steel. The plant was in operation since 1871 in germany and now its latest furnaces and the steel mill will continue working in china. Quite sad but still fascinating.
The quality of the steel she produced has gone downhill.
@@thomaslewis7855 Of course it has. The Chinese have a different understanding of quality than we do.
@@DLT-po6to no they just dont care as much about quality.
@@toddcolclough3177 They do. But they only try to get the quality just good enough and and not as good as possible.
yes agreed , but the mentality toward manual work and the production of products between Germans and the Chinese could not be more different, so your open mindedness toward the mill being torn down and shipped to china surprised me a lot. i see no continuation in it. to me its not the same mill at all. Would most Germans see it the way you do?
Wow, they're lunch is huge! Nice to see managers get in the same line as everyone else.
Their value system disallows individual distinction. Even though he owns part of, maybe even the whole place, the only thing that matters is the growth of the system. He had his own space away from the other houses, sure, but 750sqft. It's like my living room and family room. That's a tiny house. Sure the workers make a small take home salary, but not wage level. Most of it is, what we would call, taxed. The community springs up around the needs of the families working the plant. As the plant gets bigger, and more people are needed, the community naturally grows and integrates. I feel like it has its pros and cons. Like, I assume, not much ladder climbing. Gentrification, as the plant complexifies, new skilled workers must be brought in to maintain steady work flow. This would change the balance of locals and legacy staff members who have lived there longest, as managers and new teams would be from other places. I also assume that education, and what you are allowed to do, are engineered. So to speak...
Like in the movie the Truman show, does not-knowing make that reality any less special? After he knows, does it do him any good to understand that he ultimately has no other options? 🧐
This belong on the History Channel. It's a 2004 doc called: Glanz der Erde - Eisen in China
And it was transported to china in 2002, 18 years already, at that time i was just a little boy in kindergarten, now i’m a mother with 2 kids xD
@@mingmingzhao3518 So,the question is :Are you a boy or a girl
We will see it again in 10 years !!
@@liyz7142 *Are you stupid she already said she is a mother*
LI YZ oh, im absolutly a man, haha, its a meme on chinese internet. Teenagers use it to express how fast time flies and things change
ONLY IN CHINA.....Once upon a time I used to catch eel but now I catch steel
These eels are very healthy, rich in iron! lol
That's most industrialized countries. All were built on the backs of farmers and rural people drawn to the big cities and industry.
lolol why is this not the top comment
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙏
Chinese steel sucks eels have way more iron content than chinese steel.
.. "it's good I don't have to steal"!
Just when I thought my job was difficult. Certaingly won't be complaining at my desk tomorrow.
A lot of jobs in your hi tech America aren't much better than that get a grip on reality before you open your yap.
Michael Mark Martin III just shut the fuck up idiot
Whats your job?
@@unemployedgringo 😂😂😭😭😭😭
This is made quite long ago, but it still gives a good insight into the reality of China
The Russians did some pretty impressive factory moving in '42.
hahahaha, yes they did!
Seems miserable, but seeing that guy's smile as he talks about the house he built shows that your experience in life is based on your attitude. Amazing to see the pride the guys they interviewed had in their work.
And that is how we go from Pig Iron to Chineseium
It all happened in 2002, 18 years ago. At that time i was just a little boy in kindergarten, but now i am a mother with 2 kids
Hol up!! There's something wrong here
@@nickgehr6916 sex change? 🤣😂
@@vicsantana7116 no it's a Chinese meme about how time flies
What?
@@vicsantana7116 hy
*"I-Ron."*
Hi I-ron . I'm I-ran 😂😂 and you are a friend, yes?
Lad-dles, full of pick i-ron.
Most annoying narrator ive ever heard
@@JUSJAK I thought it was Christophe Waltz...
@@JUSJAK I'd like to hear you speak german
Thanks for the interesting documentary!
Introduced the steel industry in China from a ecosystem perspective:
- technology source: buy up foreign steel mill
- material sources: Australian ore, scrapes fished in the Yangtze river,
- transportation: small ship business
- steel production process
- end product
New Zealand has an issue where imported steel from china met the tests at first, but later failed after many bridges and buildings were constructed with it. Very fustrating.
Trust but verify... especially when lives depend on it eh
I'm surprised that no one has gone deaf yet! I suffered hearing loss while working as a maintenance personal on a airport and that is with ear plugs!! These guys aren't wearing any so I can only imagine the damage to their eir drums
The steel industry workers eat new born babies for their stem cells to regrow their hearing
I’m British now retired after a lifetime in the Steel Industry. During my last ten years I worked for a project management company called Primetals Technologies supplying Iron and Steel making plant mostly to the Far East. At the moment China’s low wage economy justifies this type of work being done there. As stated in the film the Chinese workers are becoming better paid and this is driving up demand for cars etc. However the industry is now changing new low energy methods of production are being developed. Metal products are being produced with little or no offcuts to be remelted. Automation is reducing the number of people required to produce metals. Soon low wages will lose out to better science. A competition between universities will in future decide who makes metals. I for one expect volume steel production to start returning to Europe, Britain and North America very soon.
Wages only make up around 7 percent of the cost of producing Chinese steel
@6:27 "This is low quality scrap. It has copper, and things in it. It's hardly worth using, but prices are high." He is going to melt that down whole, copper, nickle, lead, everything will mix in with the steel. Then they will make things to export. The next time you buy anything from China and it breaks after a week, that is why. Hammer bends, ball bearings shoot out of socket wrench, the sockets split down the side. Tools made in America or Europe from the 1950s still work fine, Chinese items made last week fall after a couple days.
Yes you are right, these Tramp Elements makes steel WEAKER, But i believe its the responsibility of Companies Procurement Department to purchase Quality Equipment, they must have Technical Guys along with them who guide them.
Its clear that Cheap price brings low Quality Equipment.
if you want quality pay the quality price. But fuck hole like you don't want to pay the price but expect to top notch quality products. The Chinese not suppose to eat?
You can make good steel from electric arc furnaces but the Chinese don't care about quality. Nothing like warped Chinese brake rotors one month after you buy and install them. Thanks GM and China for ending my Engineering Design career. As my grandmother taught me; its not how much you pay but what you get for what you pay, " don't be penny wise & pound foolish" . Your products are cheap enough but still aren't worth paying for.
I'll never forget using a drill bit from China. It bent into a j!
@@vincentconti3633
Most of the drill bits that I got from China just snapped in half or the tips broke.
I try and avoid Chinese bits now.
27:24 when your water is so polluted you can use it as boat fuel.
that was cooling water. The fuel tank still has the cap on.
@@nickopedia5669 i know, they are different colors. i still had to rewatch it when i saw it the first time because i'm not used to seeing that setup.
bruh that's for the cooling system, ain't no combustion engine could run with the slightest moisture.
@@default2591 You should search out Stanley Meyer's water car LOL
@@jerrypeevey Fueled by snake oil and clickbait loL
on the Great Lakes of Canada/USA we have 1000 foot/1,6093 km for iron ore. There is much iron ore in Australia, Port Hedland I believe. In Canada/USA we have good safety for workers now.
BTW, that electric arc furnace uses massive amounts of anthracite coal for slag formation. North Korea has huge reserves of anthracite coal. So does The Ukraine in the Donots Basin. Right now Pennsylvania is the most politically stable area supplying anthracite
You forgot about us in Aust Cindy; but then we SouthernHemispherans don't really count, do we?
Upside down lives matter! 😄👍
this was a beautiful doco. the multimedia here is breathtaking
I like how everyone is happy and appreciative
History has shown us this before. I'd worry about a group that's innovative enough, smart enough, resourceful enough, and determined enough to pull off a project like this. A great way to build an empire and conquer your surrounding enemies is to remove/reuse their idle refuse and repurpose it for yourself, right under their noses.
Economies fall as fast as they rise . Nothing is forever , empire falls .
When you're green you grow, when you're ripe you rot.
Phillip Lopez every empire falls eventually, even America will fall someday.
Well, China has been around continuously for over 4000 years, maybe they are an exception.
AntonioR Software China has hardly been an empire the entire time. That’s like saying Rome has been an empire for thousands of years lol.
economies will fall yes,... but only when people stop working,. and place tariffs on those that do,...
Nice documentary, but really a 40 tonne arc furnace is only a toy. I've seen the British Steel 240 tonne monsters in action in the 1980s, now that's real noise! Like being in the middle of a thunderstorm; ear protection is mandatory and only just works. Also the commentator describes it as 'smelting,' which it isn't: it's melting, which is a different thing.
How is it not smelting by definition ? Melting and smelting are two different chemical terms that describe two different processes. The maindifference between meltingand smelting is that melting converts a solid substance into a liquid whereas smeltingconverts an ore to its purest form.and they do both ...
I'm sure they will be hearing that noise soon. Haven't you heard, the sweet n sours are buying up Scunthorpe :)
Aj Pool 🏊 you kinda answered your question . But taking iron ore / dirt and turning it into iron pellets is called - smelting .
Taking good steel and melting it back into liquid steel is Not called smelting
cheng8881 - looked up the story . China 🇨🇳 is going to try to keep British steel running ?
Japan 🇯🇵 tried the same thing in the USA in the 1980s . 🇯🇵 were way to polite . They got totally forked .
will be interesting to see how Chinese do in Britain 🇬🇧
@@psychiatry-is-eugenics No one negotiates better than the Chinese. Indeed it will be fascinating to watch it all unfold.
33:29 I was expecting to hear combine voices coming through the radio
Imagine the pride that crane operator feels. Good for him!
Curious how old this documentary is, looks over 10 years old.
It's from 2004.
@@iannens3316 that is old
It's a good informative thing to see now though. Cuz enough time has passed that when there's even a moderate earthquake, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapses because of the Chinese steel they used on it, we'll all at least think hey we knew about this
I'd agree with that. I've lived in China for many years now and originally did some work with the foundries over here. I gave it up for reasons of personal ethical considerations. However, people are wearing personal protection equipment in the video which they sure didn't ten years ago, but that could be for the cameras. The rest definitely is consistent with your view in my opinion. I mean, look at the state of the place generally, it isn't a modern foundry by any means.
2004 was a looong time along
I'm pretty certain they have been watering down the quality of steel for a long time.
They have their own sh*tty formula.. its called chineseium....
I work for an engineering company and we pretty much have a constant presence in chinese steel factories supervising and testing their steel to ensure its to standard.
They try to divert attention away and hide their corner cutting. As soon as you turn your back, they will attempt to rip you off and give you sub standard steel. We have sent entire shiploads of steel back to china for failing standards.
I wish the world would wake up, the chinese culture is 'fuck everyone else, beg, lie, steal' anything to take over and when they do, they opress. The world will not benefit from a powerful china.
slickstrings I wish more people understood this. We also need our governments to incentivize local manufacturing . This would create higher quality products
@@slickstrings
I think the world has not benefit from anything "too powerful" never ever. Not a Germany, not a France Not a USA.
The problem is that the so-called "developed world" is getting lazy and complacent. They forget that most of the processes that have made this "modern" life possible rely on many hands on the floor and cheap labor. Once these processes become too polluting to be feasible in the US, they are outsourced to some poor buggers in China.
Let them breathe the bad air instead of us, now its their problem.
All that will fall back on US when China is becoming so powerful that they outsource THEIR polluting production to...
{your guess}
@@OttoDeCalumnias China already exports their fluoride from aluminum plants in China to be added to our water supply here in the USA.
Impressive. What I don't see is the huge behind-the-scenes infrastructure. All this required immense foresight and planning... Bravo!!
That last samurai music is killing me xd
Me 2 is fucking class
It's sad to watch that metal industry in Germany has collapsed. The same thing was in Poland, thousands of people lost their jobs. It could be a big problem for Europe in the future, if most of the manufacturing jobs are moved to Asia.
The same for people all over the world, as large corporations are more important than the people in most countries. This is why many of the bad things are happening world wide.
Yet Europe are importing more migrants and refugees to leech of of European tax payers.
More immigrants and refugees mean less competition from employers.
Employers can have their pick of workers with more immigrants. Employers don't have to pay higher wage either as workers have to compete for jobs now.
Supply and demand.
@@terriesmith8219 Yes, and we have that problem here as well. You probably see it from your home as well when you get out. I hope that you have been safe from the fires recently. Also my focus lately has been my wife, if you are the person by that name and not too far from the 78, you probably know her. She has had problems with her hands due to neuropathy and has not used pencils for sometime, then about week before thanksgiving and the snow had heart attack. If you are the same person she was with a friend of hers at your place and she used to draw dragons and other things and 3d as well. I have a link on this account if you want to contact me, as I'm not on FB very much.
@@Paul-gz5dp
Yup. We have a big immigration and refugees problem here, that's why our wages are stagnant. Our wages hasn't risen since the late 80s.
We have so many immigrants and refugees in our country that it's ruining the middle class. The middle class has pretty much disappeared. Gone.
Tax payers are paying for refugees and migrants homes, foods, medical, schools. ALL paid by tax payers, yet the real citizen end up homeless because all the housing goes to immigrants and refugees first. Real citizens are a last priority.
These globalists leaders are actively trying to destroy Europe and America. They want to destroy the West so they can rule over everyone. We'll become serfs by then.
@@terriesmith8219 That is true, and from what I know of history it is not the first time they have done this.They were behind the destruction of Egypt, Rome, Greece, Persia, and many others as well. Some of this is in Robert Greene's books. Other places as well. Even Caesar had a problem with them.
Based on 24:00 This bridge is in the early stages and was started in late 1997 and finished in early 2001, So this setting of this documentary is some time in '98 or '99.
It came out in 2004
Nicely done. I was there in ‘01 and remember this old Shanghai, right on the cusp of explosive growth.
14:50 that's some good PPE right there! safety first. he's ready for anything.
What an irony , a fisherman came to shanghai to catch eels .. the eels have gone and now they fish for scrap metal
@God Bless us all It's not illegal to clean up the water. It is illegal to "work" without proper registration. He is from a different area. And in China you can only work and go to school legally in your home province or town. That is communism for you.
@@DanielButlergungfu1967 It is all about control. That is communism for you, total control over the individual, with no deviation from the party line( except for the leadership of course)
They bought an oil refinery in Winnipeg and dismantled it and shipped it to china in the 80's.
Only in China would people be upset that there isn't trash in the water.
😂
I'm eating a hot pocket in the kitchen. It's 1.04am and your comment made me chuckle
Well this was filmed in 2002-2004 so get on with the times little boy.
And apparently it's entirely illegal to clean up the river...
Other way around, only in China do they find a way to make money from cleaning up their rivers.
Excellently produced documentary and equally informative. Thank you.
I love how the workers in the pig iron plant have no 'silver suits' for protection like in Western plants!
Human capital is cheap in China; people are disposable !
@pegan farm They are so used to be stepped on they believe 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week with no safety equipment is a damn good life.
@pegan farm yes, the shoes melting....
They got 3 billion people - you cannot kill enough of them at any speed.
@@rabidfarmer9765 what??
Tapping a furnace is hugely dangerous, few minor accidents, lots of major ones
Judging by image quality, and fliphones it is early 200x? Those were great years
So are these.
The early 2000s were good times indeed my friend.
any Era is much much better than now... except maybe for 1900something when the great plague, or the last ice age...
Great work on those who created this documentary! Looks like it was a lot of work!
So this is really over ten years old now
You will see it again every 10 years !!
Looks nothing like America
16 years
The documentary is from 2004. It's turning 17 here in 2021
the most Epic intro of a Steel Mill in RUclips History
Frank Mill 👌
It’s a really good video. Enjoyed watching it. Gives you a little insight into the Chinese industrial way of life 👍👍👍👍
Arch Stanton that’s old
The great thing about Chinese steel (Chinesium) is that it is highly biodegradable, in that it rusts away to nothing very quickly.
I don't know about that, but low alloy steel no matter where made rusts away. The equipment left here to go to China and along with it the ability to make it here. Used to have one in Fontana and it is now a distribution center. It would have been much smarter to have made the plant operate cleaner, and the same for the one at Jorgensen in Lynwood. They would need all new equipment along with buildings to start production again. Investment should be here at home, as it is very stupid for any country to rely on other countries for its materials. If they cut you off you are at their mercy, and a great way to win a war without even fighting. If the equipment is broken down and can't get or make parts it is rather stupid on our part.
I mean you are correct about chinesium, but don't forget it's the business owners that push for more low quality chinesium to put in everything. its *not* like its the actual foundry workers who purposely make the steel shitty for their own gain.
19:43 - no hearing protection , safety shields , safety glasses , dust masks ?
Should interview former workers , if any are alive
Who else can do this wearing flip flops and short shorts?
That is why they are hiring so many people.
Accursed Nature - most people who learn the truth are not able to communicate . Really helpless minority , alone , divided .
That's why they are kicking our asses. They don't the restrictions the west does.
@@MichaelWilson-dm4gz by restrictions you mean labor laws and workers rights?
What an informative and well-done documentary of the steel industry in China. Great camera and editing work!
Their p.p.e is terrifyingly inadequate
The sucker with the Lance and a cloth over his face and they say that it's very hot almost 100degrees.more like 1000.
Thing is, the Chinese steelworks are state subsidised, but in the West no government wants to help domestic manufacturing. They’d rather play at the money markets than have proper industry and a skilled, motivated population.
I found this highly enjoyable. Very well done. Wish the steel workers had better PPE but they’re making due with what they have.
Nice documentary, it was interesting to watch it! Actually, it is a pretty big problem to compete with Chinese and Asian steel prices for for example European steelmakers which makes their situation very difficult. Unfortunately, most of the buyers care about the price and not the quality.
Just as a side note, there is small inaccuracy in the used terms. The process used to melt scrap steel is called melting. Smelting is when you produce the pig iron from the iron ore in the blast furnace.
Thanks!
My father was a foreman for Granite City Steel in Illinois , The Industry is Up & Down In Constant Turmoil .
Timmy Jones - us steel cutting back it’s Detroit works to . Doesn’t look good ; can’t compete with China 🇨🇳
30 years ago I saw mountains of scrap being exported from UK and on other side of country mountains of iron ore and limestone were being imported to make iron.
crazy situation as melting scrap is cheaper and cleaner than making basic iron then melting it to make steel.
Back then it actually would cost more to ship the scrap across the country then ship it to China. Until fairly recently that was also part of the reason e-waste and recyclables mostly went to China. Crazy but true do to the shipping arrangements most countries have with China and the huge amount of export China ships.
China doesn’t have much concern for the environment.
@@thomaslewis7855 that honestly was only part of the equation. The shipping aspect was massive. China has been cutting back on waste shipments more recently. As a result much of our recyclables are not being recycled at all. E- waste is headed to West Africa, India and Bangladesh these days.
Thomas Lewis China would to like to concern but white countries give it too much pressure. China is too weak to resist.
This is a good overview of what steel making tech was like in 2003.
Thank very much good video...!
This documentry was probably filmed around 2002~2004. Many things has changed so far.
*They can't film bad stuff today, so they use old stuff*
Dont think it has got any better
Spark creates documentaries for television and has been releasing all of it's old docs to RUclips. So, of course you won't find a new doc here.
I lived in Pudong Shanghai just behind the TV tower many years, Shanghai is remarkable how fast it develops
realize that this is more of a documentary of a pig iron factory
This was a documentary about economic change and how manufacturing is moving from the west to China. And pig iron was merely a semi finished product for them. That is a steel plant.
31:00 putting their hands between the cracks lololol
ah yes! I was tucking my hands when I saw this.
right?! i was like jesus people, one strong gust of wind...get you freakin hands outta there!!
When you wear a suit jacket to collect scrap metal. 28:00
Haha, right!
This is an old documentary, judging from the cars seen maybe the mid 2000’s the steel mill from Dortmund has probably been cut for scrap by now, the world an China has moved a long way. This is an interesting historical document.
It is really amazing how quality of life differs around the world and it hurts my soul to see people struggle to this extent for little more than scraps. I was lucky to be born in the Netherlands but unlucky to born with many medical complications and it's just insane to me that my life is not just a bit better than any of the people in this video but significantly better and I don't even have to work for it.
I am hugely grateful for my luck of being born here, if I was born in China or any less wealthy country I would either be working the worst of the worst jobs, be living as a beggar or be dead.
Regardless of what you believe in or what politicians you vote for all I can ask for is for you to consider all the people in the world when you do. In the end, regardless where you're from or what you believe in we are all human beings we all have sons and daughters, mothers and fathers etc..
Raising the quality of life for as many people as possible around the world helps *everyone* in the long term. And lets be honest, even the poorest in the western world have more to give than the average person in the poorest countries in the world. We have to work together and raise humanity to a better place, not for me, not for you but for our sons and daughters and their children.. for our future as a species.
The way he pronounces Iron though. EyeRon
I see osha regulation are no where to be found in China they let those workers stand next to that furnace with no fire protection or face shield of any kind
Super industrious and powerful.
9:43 best part, that is a really long wire
Nice to watch the country where our (USA) economy was given.
You have given your economy to the chinese by chinese guys who bought a favtory in Dortmund ?
@@juliusraben3526 you’re an idiot if that’s how deeply you think on the subject
@@Girtharmstrong69 ........... maybe watch the clip again
@@juliusraben3526 his comment isn’t exclusively about the purchase of a Dortmund refinery dumbass
Our economy is still larger, our leaders have decided to let China endure the environmental degradation. The West can still do it cheaper and more efficiently, but not with pollution control. China is like the West in the 20th century, no concern for the environment.
I think that the scrap fishermen should be hired to take the copper out of the motors and that low grade steel scrap. Copper is worth a lot but not in steel it isn't! Their pay could go up a lot if they would just be hired to separate the metals. It would improve the quality of the steel too
Very creative solution! I thought it was funny when he was complaining about copper..scrap steel = $0.06 per lb, scrap copper = $2+ per lb
It takes capitalism to figure that out. There's no incentive in a communist economy to do anything better.
39:54 these not just wire, these are actually called "Wire Rods"
Wonderful I like how they even. Enjoy them work
Thank you for proper translation, I hate these channels that doing subtitles bullshit.
this ENTIRE music score is from "The Last Samurai" 😶
Boss, does this music sounds like a Chinese music?
Ehh, who cares! Just put it in
The problem with say the UK is, it was geared up for mass production rather than production.
It’s better to have a small functioning company that a big company that isn’t profitable
Dat intro is fire
I'm sure the Chinese will be gentle and caring overlords.
@Yee Vang Yes, that will be the excuse they give.
Amazing a factory worker can afford a 250m square brand new banglow, no factory workers in New Zealand can afford that in New Zealand.
No factory workers In the United States can afford that either.🇺🇸
This documentary is well made
I enjoy that Channel *"spark"*
It has always Interesting reports over everything around the world.
nice to see someone really taking pride in their work.
lol
I agree though, canceling lunch is unforgivable
Very satisfying video. Hardwork
Thanks for the video
The magnet fisher needs multiple magnets in a net configuration to catch more scrap quicker.
And baby food made out of drywall!
Radium , germanium all things you could find in electronics ends ups as a cutting product in ore. This is why a flat sheet will have spots that rots for no reason compared to the rest , why that prybar just snaped with small pressure etc.
At 2:00min I thought I was going back to work in the oil sands of Fort McMurray Canada .
I-run ore. Scrap I-run.
Everbody else pronounces it like iern.
I think it's spelt 'eye ron'
obviously a german fella
damn hour and a half lunchbreak lol
Vinny O we have 30min in Australia 🇦🇺 slave country
That's pretty dam good. I get 45 mins but I dont think I would be able to get off my ass and go back to work after a hour and a half break lol
Life of Brian movie - “you lucky bastard”
Fishing Scraps is the best way to clean rivers. Very interesting documentary.
Does anyone know the year this was produced? They said an entire district 'will' be taken down and rebuild soo... pre 2010?? Thanks in advance!
“Even the cranes have air conditioning”
-Has a cigarette in there anyway
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