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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...

It's been several hundred years since the question “What is in a name?” was introduced into the British consciousness. It's an interesting principle, because sometimes a name is very precise and exact and at other...

When you deal with as much steel as those in the trade do, you get to know your product quite well. By look, feel, weight or density, you can identify different metals and you have...

One of the wonderful things about working in steel is that you get to see the full breadth of industry that uses steel as an integral part. Although many still have the idea that steel...

When you work with metals on a regular basis, sometimes you just get used to using certain terms or measurements without thinking anything further about them. One of these is the NPS, which is nominal...