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 ...

-- Oct. 18--WARREN -- The blast furnace at RG Steel, which has been running continuously for several years, was closed Monday as a result of an explosion in one of the blast furnace's four ovens. The ...

Japan's Kobe Steel Ltd has successfully demonstrated a new technology to reduce CO2 emissions from blast furnace operations by a fifth, as compared to the conventional approach, a company official ...

Steelmaker British Steel said it could close its two blast furnaces as soon as June with the potential loss of up to 2,700 jobs. U.S. tariffs and environmental costs threaten its already struggling ...

DUNKIRK -- Top global steelmaker ArcelorMittal (IW 1000/35) plans to reopen later this month a blast furnace at one of its French sites that has been shut down for several months, a union source said ...

Nippon Steel Corp, Japan's biggest steelmaker, will temporarily shut two blast furnaces in Japan later this month to cope with declining demand due to the coronavirus pandemic, it said late on Tuesday ...

DULUTH — Cleveland-Cliffs will idle a blast furnace at Indiana Harbor, its latest production adjustment as it uses more electric-arc furnaces and more scrap metal to make steel. Blast furnace 4 at ...

TOKYO, March 27 (Reuters) - Sumitmo Metal Industries Ltd said it had resumed operations at the last remaining blast furnace at the 8.3 million tonne-a-year Kashima works north of Tokyo, that has been ...

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 ...