IN the year 1608 the British East India Company purchased seventeen tons of pig-iron — subsequently declared by Sir Thomas Gates to be “as good as any in Europe ” — for four pounds sterling per ton.

U.S. Steel Gary Works is counting on a $60 million pig iron caster to help continue diversifying the industry and solidifying the steel giant as a leader in the world’s production. U.S. Steel, city, ...

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Republic Steel will partner with a mining firm on a joint venture to process iron in Lorain to feed steel mills of other producers. On July 25, Republic Steel and ERP Iron Ore LLC announced a ...

Iron ore is super heated in a blast furnace to make pig iron, which in turn is used to produce steel. The making of steel is a continuous process. Pig iron is moved from the blast furnace to the steel ...