Ilmenite ore is used as a flux by steelmakers to line blast furnace hearth refractory. The steelmakers adapted their mills to process the ore from the Mesabi range. The steelmakers offered workers the same wage increases that U.S. Steel had offered. McDonald was unwilling to budge on Section 2(b) without other concessions from the steelmakers. In the late 1830s Thomas Firth was head melter at Sheffield crucible steelmakers Sanderson Brothers. These factors led Murray to agree to negotiations with the steelmakers. The Steel Transformation Plan was a $500 million package for Australia's two steelmakers. The steelmakers quickly acceded to the government's demands. This was expanded to include other trades by later acts, most notably steelmakers in 1860. Big American steelmakers were late adopters of the new technology. The process was adopted by many large steelmakers in the years following McLouth's venture. Howe, Brown & Company, Ltd., steelmakers, President. The steelmakers sought an injunction preventing the seizure. Martin Wendel was followed by eight generations of steelmakers. He became a director of the family business of John Summers & Sons, steelmakers.