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 ...

When the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding for seven hydrogen hubs throughout the U.S. this past October, Cleveland-Cliffs Chairman, President and CEO Lourenco Goncalves was among ...

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 ...

Blast furnace hearth drainage and liquid level management are critical components in maintaining the operational efficiency and longevity of blast furnaces. Effective drainage ensures the controlled ...

TOKYO -- Nippon Steel has begun the process of transitioning from blast furnaces to electric arc furnaces, seen as crucial ...

As the era of the ‘Goro (blast furnace)’ comes to an end, the steel industry is accelerating the arrival of the ‘carbon-free steel’ era. According to the industry on the 7th, POSCO began construction ...

The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that furnace is the charcoal fire of ...

A lumpy disc of dark-gray steel covers a bench in the lab space of Boston Metal, an MIT spinout located a half-hour north of its namesake city. It’s the company’s first batch of the high-strength ...