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 ...

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 ...

With a staff of over 80,000, Ukraine-headquartered Metinvest is a major name in end-to-end steel production. Looking to improve the efficiency of its blast furnaces — reducing fuel consumption by ...

Blast furnace operations are pivotal to the ironmaking industry, where coke acts not only as a fuel but also as a chemical reducing agent. Recent investigations have elucidated that the reactivity of ...

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 ...

POSCO Holdings and Hyundai Steel, which have declared a transition to a 'low-carbon production system,' still have not reduced the proportion of blast furnace operations that emit a large amount of ...