Carbide Industries: Watch why the steel industry relies on this Louisville-based company
Monday, July 16, 2012
This video profile of Carbide Industries is the first of our new “Business in Your Backyard” video series, featuring various LG&E and KU Major Accounts customers.
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While skyscrapers, bridges, and buildings are scattered across the U.S., Kentucky natives may not be aware of a critical component manufactured in their backyards by Louisville-based Carbide Industries that contributed to their successful construction.
Carbide Industries is the country’s largest producer of calcium carbide, which is a necessary product for cutting, welding and the steel industry.
Electricity is critical to Carbide Industries, which uses 1,000 times more energy in a single day than the average LG&E or KU residential customer uses in a month.
According to John Gant, general manager of Carbide Industries, it takes about 3 megawatts of energy to make one ton of calcium carbide, and furnace temperatures must remain above 10,000 degrees during the manufacturing process.
Carbide Industries is one of 400 Major Accounts customers in the LG&E and KU service territories. These customers alone use approximately one million megawatt hours per month, or the equivalent amount of energy required to support 800,000 residential electric customers on a monthly basis.
Watch the video to learn more about Carbide Industries from General Manager John Gant.
