A lot of new output is emerging from small-scale plants that are relatively easy to build, but highly polluting ...

The blast furnace will be replaced with an electric arc furnace which produces less carbon dioxide, but needs fewer workers Steelworkers have drilled the final hole in the last remaining blast ...

Producing pig iron in a blast furnace is a key process in steelmaking, and according to Zhang, it contributes to more than 70% of both energy consumption and pollution emission in steel production.

GFG says while the blast furnace is running at half its capacity, the resumption of steelmaking is a "significant milestone" in its efforts to "rescue the plant". Whyalla's embattled steelworks ...

The NeoSmelt collaboration aims to decarbonise steelmaking by using Pilbara iron ore without traditional blast furnaces, marking a significant step in reducing carbon emissions. The collaboration ...

Eleven years ago, a senior Tata manager claimed investment in Port Talbot would secure steelmaking for the next 100 years. That was the day the £185m blast furnace number four was switched on.

The output is later fed into induction furnaces — that use electromagnetic currents to melt the iron — then shaped into commercial products. This steelmaking route is the most carbon-intensive among ...