grade steel production by 30%, beats US

A Chinese state-linked steel manufacturer has reportedly increased its production speed for military-grade steel by 30%. The Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group reports that this achievement was made possible by addressing bottlenecks and upgrading production technology. This comes at the same time that the US has lost one of its critical armor-steel production sites due to it becoming too expensive to operate. The Chinese company explains that progress has been achieved by solving process and quality-control challenges. They also reportedly enabled large-scale, high-performance armour steel production to reduce steel production time. Steel produced at plants like this is currently vital…