Media &Communication Tech.
(Assignment-I)
(Documentary Film on Steel Utensils)
Steel is used widely in appliances. Despite the growth in usage of aluminium, it is still
the main material for utensils. Steel is used in a variety of other construction materials,
such as bolts, nails and screws and other household products and cooking utensils.
Most of the more commonly used steel alloys are categorized into various grades by
standards organizations. For example, the Society of Automotive Engineers has a
series of grades defining many types of steel. The Society for Testing and
Materials has a separate set of standards, which define alloys such as A36 steel, the
most commonly used structural steel. The Stainless steel also defines a series of steel
grades that are being used extensively in India.
When iron is smelted from its ore, it contains more carbon than is desirable. To become
steel, it must be reprocessed to reduce the carbon to the correct amount, at which point
other elements can be added. In the past, steel facilities would cast the raw steel
product into ingots which would be stored until use in further refinement processes that
resulted in the finished product. In modern facilities, the initial product is close to the
final composition and is continuously cast into long slabs, cut and shaped into bars and
extrusions and heat treated to produce a final product. Today, approximately 96% of
steel is continuously cast, while only 4% is produced as ingots
A major appliance, also known as a large domestic appliance or large electric
appliance or simply a large appliance, large domestic, or large electric, is a non-
portable or semi-portable machine used for routine housekeeping tasks such
as cooking, washing laundry, or food preservation. Such appliances are sometimes
collectively known as white goods, as the products were traditionally white in colour,
although a variety of colours are now available.
Edible cutlery is gaining popularity as an eco-friendly alternative to non-decomposing
plastic. Bakery’s based in Hyderabad, India is a popular edible cutlery manufacturer
established by a former scientist. At Bakery’s millet-based dough is poured into metallic
moulds and baked at 280 °C for about 28 minutes which hardens it.
B.R. Sai Charan,
MFA 1st Semester,
21021QC001.
