Puddling (metallurgy) Wikipedia
Schematic drawing of a puddling furnace. Puddling is the process of converting pig iron to bar (wrought) iron in a coal fired reverberatory was developed in England during the 1780s. The molten pig iron was stirred in a reverberatory furnace, in an oxidizing [citation needed] environment to burn the carbon, resulting in wrought was one of the most important processes for ...