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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A spent electric vehicle battery pack is, by most accounts, a recycling headache. Cracking one open means dealing with toxic ...

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 ...

Blast furnaces play a pivotal role in modern metallurgy, where the uniform distribution of burden (the mix of coke, pellets, sinter and other raw materials) directly influences the efficiency and ...

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 ...

A lumpy disc of dark-gray steel covers a bench in the lab space of Boston Metal, an MIT spinout located a half-hour north of its namesake city. It’s the company’s first batch of the high-strength ...