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 ...

Into the Armco Steel Corp. plant at Houston this week rolled three carloads of iron smelted by a radical new process. Developed by a Hungarian-born inventor, Julius Madaras, and financed by Oilman ...

With a staff of over 80,000, Ukraine-headquartered Metinvest is a major name in end-to-end steel production. Looking to improve the efficiency of its blast furnaces — reducing fuel consumption by ...

Blast furnace operations are pivotal to the ironmaking industry, where coke acts not only as a fuel but also as a chemical reducing agent. Recent investigations have elucidated that the reactivity of ...

The reline for blast furnace #14 will cost $350 million and take 100 days, starting in May and ending in August.

The last blast furnace at one of the biggest steelworks in the world is shutting down, leaving it unable to make its own virgin steel. Nearly 2,000 jobs will be lost at Tata Steel UK’s Port Talbot ...

In short: The Whyalla steelworks' owner has confirmed its blast furnace was damaged during efforts to repair it. The plant has been offline for more than seven weeks because of issues with the furnace ...