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 ...

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 ...

Steelmaking is an energy intensive industry, whose heavy reliance on fossil fuels creates significant pollution. Using renewable, clean energy sources for steel production is one approach to reduce ...

Blast furnaces are an indispensable part of the iron industry. After iron ore is mined, it goes directly to the furnace to be smelted, or refined. But blast furnaces produce an incredible amount of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posco will re-define the global steel industry with innovative, next generation iron making technology that replaces conventional blast furnaces, which have been used for over 100 years. The ...