When you hear it said that “Modern steel is disposable by design”, your ears perk up, as you just caught the unmistakable ...

Blast furnace ironmaking remains a pivotal process in the production of molten iron, where maintaining operational stability and product quality is of utmost importance. Recent advances have seen the ...

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 ...

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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 ...