Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks is undergoing a major transformation with the installation of two electric arc furnaces, ...

According to the SMM survey, as of January 22, the operating rate of blast furnaces at 242 steel mills surveyed by SMM was 85.60%, up 0.46 percentage points WoW. The blast furnace capacity utilisation ...

“This highlights a great need to reduce energy use and emissions.” Producing pig iron in a blast furnace is a key process in steelmaking, and according to Zhang, it contributes to more than 70 ...

Cliffs operates seven blast furnaces. Idling one takes out about 14% of pig iron capacity. (Pig iron is refined into steel in ...

Fran visits a blast furnace where iron oxide is reduced to iron by carbon monoxide. The iron that is produced is called pig iron but this is brittle and must be processed into more useful types of ...