Iron Smelting and Steel Manufacturing: ABS business counts

In this class, the ABS counts businesses mainly engaged in smelting and/or refining iron ore or iron sands into basic iron products such as ingots, billets and slabs. Also included are businesses mainly engaged in manufacturing steel from iron alloyed with other elements (e.g. with carbon to produce carbon steel; with chromium to produce stainless steel); the conversion of basic iron and steel products (generally by hot or cold rolling) into primary shapes such as sheets, bars and rods; and recycling scrap ferrous metals.

Examples the ABS lists:

• Band, steel, manufacturing
• Bar, iron or steel, manufacturing
• Blank, steel, manufacturing
• Direct reduction iron (DRI) manufacturing
• Ferro-alloy manufacturing (including, manganese, silicon or chrome)
• Flat-rolled product, iron or steel, manufacturing
• High carbon tool steel manufacturing
• High speed steel manufacturing
• Pig iron manufacturing
• Powder, iron or steel, manufacturing

The ABS counts businesses mainly engaged in this related work in other classes:

• iron ore pelletising or agglomerating in association with iron ore mining are included in Class 0801 Iron Ore Mining
• producing coke for non-ferrous metallurgy or fuel use are included in Class 1709 Other Petroleum and Coal Product Manufacturing
• iron and steel casting are included in Class 2121 Iron and Steel Casting
• non-ferrous metal casting are included in Class 2141 Non-Ferrous Metal Casting
• manufacturing ferrous pipes or tubes (except cast or forged) are included in Class 2122 Steel Pipe and Tube Manufacturing
• drawing steel wire and making steel fence posts are included in Class 2291 Spring and Wire Product Manufacturing

The ABS page for class 2110 gives the full definition and what the class leaves out.