Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...

The blast furnace remains the cornerstone of high‐volume ironmaking, utilising complex thermal and chemical reactions to reduce iron oxides into molten iron. Contemporary operations place increasing ...

The takeover battle for U.S. Steel is about more than the ignominious fall of the world’s first billion-dollar company. It’s also about the fate of the planet. Andrew Carnegie’s vast industrial ...

Japan's Kobe Steel Ltd has successfully demonstrated a new technology to reduce CO2 emissions from blast furnace operations by a fifth, as compared to the conventional approach, a company official ...

The site of the Carrie Blast Furnaces is immense. Set alongside the Monongahela River, the two steel furnaces, tower at nearly 100 feet—totally eclipsing the site’s two football-field sized warehouses ...

Steelworkers at Scunthorpe have been given a more certain future with the arrival of new raw materials to operate British Steel’s blast furnaces, ministers have announced. 55,000 tonnes of blast ...