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Ironworks
The Iron Rolling Mill ( Eisenwalzwerk ), 1870s, by Adolph Menzel. An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, the singular of ironworks is ironworks . Ironworks succeed bloomeries when blast furnaces replaced former methods.