To make 1,000 kilograms of steel, a blast furnace environment requires 780 kilograms of coal. Because of that, steelmaking around the world uses one billion tons of coal each year.

Construction will commence on a new electric arc furnace at Port Talbot's Tata steel works, which is expected to be up and ...

Tata Steel has begun building its electric arc furnace in Port Talbot, backed by a £500m government grant. The project ...

Due to ongoing problems with AK Steel’s blast furnace at its steel plant in Ashland, Ky., the company said it will invest $17 million for repairs before the end of the year.

For some 250 years iron has been made by charging a blast furnace with ore, limestone and coke. When a blast of air is shot up through the furnace, the burning coke turns the mixture into a molten ...

While a mill in Romania has received a 30-day restructuring extension, a government bailout for electric arc furnace mills in ...

The plant’s last blast furnace was shut down in September 2024 after the government backed plans for the new £1.25 billion ...

US Steel Corp. is idling an Illinois blast furnace that Donald Trump visited as part of his self-proclaimed “rescue” of the American steel industry five years ago, as it moves to balance ...

The blast furnaces in Bethlehem are as much a part of the city’s skyline as the Empire State Building is to New York City. Once the engine to Bethlehem Steel’s vast hometown plant, the ...

U.S. Steel executives further warned during a conference call with investors it likely would keep the No. 4 blast furnace at Gary Works and blast furnace A at Granite City Works in Illinois ...

Tata Steel started winding up operations at blast furnace number four at the UK’s largest steel plant on Monday.. Plumes of white steam could be seen being vented from the furnace for the last ...

U.S. Steel did a planned maintenance project last year on its No. 8 Blast Furnace, which can produce up to 1.5 million tons of iron annually that's then turned into steel for cars, appliances ...