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Image Credits & Licenses

All industrial photographs shown on this website come from the public domain or are licensed under Creative Commons, and may be used commercially free of charge. Authors, sources and licence terms are listed below.

About these images: The industrial photography on this site is sourced from Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress, used to convey an industry atmosphere and visual depth.

Recommendation: After launch, we recommend progressively replacing them with the company's own photographs of facilities, products and equipment — more convincing, and completely free of third-party licence obligations.

Licence key: CC BY attribution only; CC BY-SA attribution plus share-alike for derivative works; Public Domain no restrictions.

Redcar Steelworks at Night

By Stuart Kerr · 2009

Used for: homepage hero background · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY 2.0

Blast Furnace, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Etna, Pennsylvania

Photograph by Alfred T. Palmer · November 1941 · Library of Congress (digital ID: fsac.1a35056)

Used for: statistics band background · Source: Wikimedia Commons

Public Domain

Blast Furnace 1 at Night, voestalpine Donawitz

By Aciarium · February 2026 · Leoben, Austria

Used for: About Us section image · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY 4.0

Slag Dumping Illuminating the Forest, Donawitz

By Aciarium · February 2026 · Leoben, Austria (night-time slag dumping lighting the forest)

Used for: "Steel Products" business image · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY 4.0

Blast Furnace Plant, Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Ohio

US National Park Service / Historic American Engineering Record (HAER OHIO,18-CLEV,32-13)

Used for: "Iron Ore" business image · Source: Wikimedia Commons

Public Domain

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord — Gas Cleaning West

By Dietmar Rabich (XRay) · March 2025 · Duisburg, Germany (public park on a former steelworks site)

Used for: "Chemical Products" business image · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 4.0

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord — Hochofenstraße at Night

By Dietmar Rabich (XRay) · March 2025 · Duisburg, Germany (public park on a former steelworks site)

Used for: "Metallurgical Products" business image · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 4.0

Flaring of Converter Gas at Night

By Aciarium · July 2025 · voestalpine Stahl Donawitz, Austria

Used for: CTA band flare accent · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY 4.0

Blast Furnaces and Sinter Plant at Night, voestalpine Leoben-Donawitz

By Aciarium · February 2026 · Leoben, Austria

Used for: "Construction & Steel Structures" project image · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 4.0

Sendzimir Steelworks Blast Furnace, Nowa Huta, Kraków

By Zygmunt Put (Zetpe0202) · July 2011 · Kraków, Poland

Used for: "Infrastructure & Bridges" project image · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 4.0

Sinter Plant Chimney at Night, voestalpine Donawitz

By Aciarium · February 2026 · Leoben, Austria

Used for: "Machinery & Manufacturing" project image · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY 4.0

Product Images

Steel product photography used on the product pages. All require attribution except those marked CC0.

Steel coils loaded on truck deck

By Fumikas Sagisavas · August 2024

Used for: Hot Coil / CRC · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC0 Public Domain

Colored steel coils

By Fumikas Sagisavas · August 2024

Used for: Pre-painted / coated coils · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC0 Public Domain

Industrial steel plates stacked near Thurcroft

By Neil Theasby · 2012

Used for: Steel Plate · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 2.0

A bunch of rebar

By W.carter

Used for: Rebar · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 4.0

Steel blooms, Hayange

By Borvan53 · 2011

Used for: Billets · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 3.0

Washed and dewatered iron ore fines stockpiled

By Peter Craven · 2011

Used for: Iron Ore · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY 2.0

Chains of pig iron casting machine

By Blast furnace chip worker

Used for: Pig Iron · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 3.0

Chromite & serpentine, Red Lodge Chromite District, Montana

By James St. John · 2020

Used for: Chrome Ore · Source: Wikimedia Commons

CC BY 2.0

Company-owned product photography (PDF source)

Used for: Continuous casting equipment / mould assembly, mould copper plate, mould copper tube, steel pipe, round bar, sections, wire rod, iron ore concentrate, etc.

Source: AKA XII CO., LTD company profile

Company-owned
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