The purpose of the visit was to propose two new rail technologies for full scale trials at Nippon Steel/Sumitomo metals, the concepts originating from a project sponsored by CBMM in Brazil.
Inside Asian airline cabin, flying from Heathrow London to Incheon South Korea and then Fukuoka in Japan for a meeting at Nippon Steel/Sumitomo Metals |
Inside Asian airline cabin |
Inside Asian airline cabin |
Inside Asian airline cabin |
The cabin has doors! |
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In lounge at Incheon |
Big news in Japan and Korea |
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This is for the short flight from Seoul to Fukuoka |
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Train tickets from Fukuoka airport to Hikata, followed by Shinkansen to Fukuoka city |
The Yawata Steel works in Japan was the oldest there, preserved here as a museum. |
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More than 100 years old, beautiful photograph, taken with artistic flair, by Harry |
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Arunim Ray, closer to heaven |
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Inside the blast furnace |
Inside the blast furnace |
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Tuyeres |
Pouring of the iron |
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… seems to be frozen in time |
Arunim Ray dressed for steel |
The convertor in the background |
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The convertor where blast furnace iron is treated with oxygen to convert it to steel |
A giant Arunim dominating the steel plant |
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Modern torpedo car |
The A-team |
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The visit to the historical iron works was after Arunim’s talk, and he simply fell asleep afterwards. |
The local iron brew |
Fukuoka from the hotel window |
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Inside the subway in Japan |
Pretending to work |