Before the electroslag remelting (ESR) process starts, a consumable wire electrode is first welded to a special holder (PIN) that forms part of the welding equipment. You can hear the sound of hand-operated metal inert gas (MIG) welding performed horizontally on a welding table.

Metal Ravne is the legal successor to Železarna Ravne. The company's range includes a steel plant programme, which starts the production of all their rolled and forged products. Due to technological modernisation over recent years, the company has all the most important machinery for the production of high-quality steel, including a 45t UHP electric arc furnace, a vacuum ladle furnace and a state-of-the-art ‘teeming pit’ for high-class conventional ingots. Their range of products includes ingots, billets with rounded edges and wide flats, with round, flat and square sections, forged bars, machined forgings, discs, bushes, etc.