Blast furnaces use coking coal to convert iron ore into molten metal. The process produces a lot of air pollution and uses a lot of energy. Because they get so hot, the bricks that line the ...

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 ...

Massachusetts-based Boston Metal is on the verge of earning its first revenue for a novel steelmaking process so clean it can ...

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 ...

British Steel has announced that it will keep its two Scunthorpe blast furnaces running and end consultation on redundancies after the UK Government took control of the business earlier this month ...

Further complicating matters is the fact that blast furnaces must be shut down gradually through a process that can take several weeks. This is necessary to properly tap the furnace for all viable ...

55,000 tonnes of blast furnace coke have arrived in the UK to fuel the Scunthorpe plant in North Lincolnshire, and a shipment of more than 66,000 tonnes of iron ore pellets and 27,000 tonnes of iron ...

Achieving cost-competitiveness for green hydrogen produced via water electrolysis using intermittent renewable energy sources ...

A trial of a new, greener replacement for indurated pellets in the ironmaking process has been successfully completed in the ...