When the news broke in the autumn of 2023 that the blast furnaces at the steelworks in Port Talbot, south Wales, were closing ...

Blast furnaces play a pivotal role in modern metallurgy, where the uniform distribution of burden (the mix of coke, pellets, sinter and other raw materials) directly influences the efficiency and ...

Tata Steel has appointed Sir Robert McAlpine to install two electric arc furnaces at its Port Talbot steelworks in Wales. The £1.25 billion project, supported by £500 million in government funding, ...

Blast furnace ironmaking has long underpinned primary steel production through the smelting of iron ore in a counter‐current reactor. However, the inherent carbon intensity of this process has ...

Frank Fabian worked for Bethlehem Steel Corporation for 30 years, primarily in the blast furnace and coke oven divisions, ...

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 ...

Nippon Steel pledged to invest $2.7 billion into U.S. Steel's operations, including nearly $1 billion in Gary Works. The Japan-based steelmaker promised to repair or reline four blast furnaces at U.S.

It's been ten years since thousands of steelworkers on Teesside were told the news they feared the most; the coke ovens at Redcar would be shut.

Blast from the past! Pittsburgh’s Festival of Combustion lights up the Carrie Blast Furnaces with fire, metal, and new ...