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 ...

Steelmaker British Steel said it could close its two blast furnaces as soon as June with the potential loss of up to 2,700 jobs. U.S. tariffs and environmental costs threaten its already struggling ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Japan's Kobe Steel Ltd (5406.T), opens new tab has successfully demonstrated a new technology to reduce CO2 emissions from blast furnace operations by a fifth, as compared to ...

GARY | A 320-ton furnace section crashed to the ground Saturday during construction of the U.S. Steel Gary Works No. 14 blast furnace. Nobody was injured in the accident, U.S. Steel Corp. Public ...