U.S. Steel shut the second furnace down in 2023. SunCoke’s commitment to the deal for Granite City’s blast furnaces comes at a time when the company appears to be doubling down on steelmaking ...

Both blast furnaces at the former U.S. Steel mill remain idled. Earlier this week, Craig McKey, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1899, said the mill employs roughly 900 employees.

Leader Nigel Farage has put re-industrialisation at the centre of his pitch and even pledged to reopen Port Talbot's steel blast furnaces. In last year's general election, Reform UK came second in ...

Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, has discussed the government's move to seize control of British Steel with his Chinese counterpart for the first time. Sky News understands that the fate ...

British Steel's Scunthorpe plant in north Lincolnshire was saved in April (Image: Peter Byrne/PA Wire) Firms in the east’s steel industry have welcomed the move, hailing it a “sign of support ...

Scunthorpe's skyline has four blast furnaces, all named after English Queens - Bess, Mary, Anne and Victoria. Bess and Anne are the only two still working.

According to the SMM survey, as of July 2, the operating rate of blast furnaces at 242 steel mills surveyed by SMM was 87.54%, down 0.42 percentage points MoM. The capacity utilization rate of blast ...

According to SMM's tracking survey data, there were actually 6 new blast furnaces undergoing maintenance in June, resulting in a daily reduction of 28,800 mt of pig iron production. Meanwhile, 7 blast ...

Blast furnaces have a huge turnover of materials. Besides the transformation of the main elements iron and carbon, a large variety of other elements (present at low concentrations in different input ...