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 ...

U.S. Steel said it will resume making steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois as demand rebounds.The company shut down the last blast furnace there in 2023, and it even moved to wind ...

U.S. Steel’s Gary Works facility, later this year, will receive its blast furnace reline through Nippon Steel’s investment ...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Steel said on Thursday it has begun the process to restart operations in one of two blast furnaces at Granite City Works, driven by customer demand. "After several months of ...

"What's in a name?" It is a good question, especially when it comes to Pittsburgh's historic Carrie Blast Furnaces. Chris ...

Blast furnace operations remain a cornerstone of primary ironmaking, underpinned by the complex interactions between charged materials – commonly referred to as the burden – and the high‐temperature ...

HAMMOND -- In blast furnace years, 15 to 20 is considered old. Researchers at Purdue University Calumet believe they can prolong that life with technology to predict where erosion is occurring in the ...

The Government wants to switch to electric arc furnaces, but these only recycle scrap steel. To keep producing virgin steel ...

LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday it could keep the country's last steel blast furnaces burning for at least the next few weeks after securing a delivery of fuel - the latest step ...