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 ...

Rio Tinto has for many years been a trusted supplier to the world’s iron and steel industry, particularly in South East Asia, where its Australian mines offer cost-effective raw material. The company ...

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 ...

British Steel is looking for relatives of workers killed 50 years ago in a blast at its North Lincolnshire plant, ahead of a ...

President Jeff Parks saw the most redevelopment potential in the iron foundry or the No. 2 machine shop until a fateful trip in 2002 to Germany. There Parks saw for the first time a series of former ...

Steelworkers at Scunthorpe have been given a more certain future with the arrival of new raw materials to operate British Steel’s blast furnaces, ministers have announced. 55,000 tonnes of blast ...

The takeover battle for U.S. Steel is about more than the ignominious fall of the world’s first billion-dollar company. It’s also about the fate of the planet. Andrew Carnegie’s vast industrial ...