A research team from Central South University in China develops innovative control method to reduce carbon emissions from zinc oxide rotary kilns. The zinc smelting industry is facing new challenges ...

ROUYN-NORANDA, QC, June 11, 2026 /CNW/ - Glencore Canada welcomes the passage of Bill 11, which establishes a stable regulatory framework for Horne Smelter operations through to 2033. This stability ...

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 ...

Mitsubishi Corporation ("MC") has agreed to participate in a demonstration project ("the Project") for the development of a hydrogen-based fluidized bed fine ore reduction process ("HYFOR") and ...

Finland-based Metso Corp. has opened a direct-reduced iron (DRI) smelting furnace pilot facility in Pori, Finland. The company says the new facility will allow customer-specific pilot-scale testing to ...

Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, has announced start of hot metal production at pilot reduction cells for EX, the company’s next generation ...

Copper smelting - a critical process in metal production - often generates slag, which contains valuable metals. This slag has historically been thrown away, causing harm to the environment and ...

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Global supply chains are already reeling from the impact of China's rare earth export controls, but an even bigger critical minerals threat is looming. Western metal ...

Smelters want further electricity cost cuts South African smelters' power costs up 900% since 2008 Thousands of jobs at risk as South Africa loses out to China Feb 18 (Reuters) - South African ...