A high-strength castable is used to line the covering area of the blast furnace trough. An acid-resistant gunned material is used to insulate the blast furnace stove. This furnace stove heats the air ...

While the full construction of the Ajaokuta blast furnace is on high gear by the Federal Government, an operational refractories plant should be urgently constructed and capacitated as previously ...

Dublin, Oct. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Steel Refractory Materials Market - Analysis By Product Type, Manufacturing Process, By Region, By Country (2020 Edition): Market Insights ...

Normally, the furnace produces about 1,500 tons of iron daily. In addition, the company is idling H-3 blast furnace on the west side of the Indiana Harbor plant in East Chicago, Ind. The furnace will ...

U.S. Steel is restarting another blast furnace at Gary Works as the steel industry recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in the temporary layoffs of thousands of steelworkers.

JFE Steel, Japan's No.2 steelmaker, aims to build a new large-scale electric arc furnace (EAF) to replace the No.2 blast furnace at its Kurashiki plant in western Japan in around 2027 to cut ...