If so, since 1948, all the Japanese steel mills use the electric melt furnace process, same as Allegheny Ludlum, Crucibe and Carpenter Technology use here in America. Best way to produce quality alloyed and tool steels. My employer in the tool and die business is not hesitant to use Japanese steels, but the founder, Dick Beecher, was strictly a Carpenter steel man- T-K was a shop standard in his day.
