Blast furnace ironmaking has long underpinned primary steel production through the smelting of iron ore in a counter‐current reactor. However, the inherent carbon intensity of this process has ...

A rare decarbonization idea that looks as good for business as it does for the planet. This system promises to radically reduce carbon dioxide emissions for 70% of steelmakers, while generating ...

Blast furnaces are used to create iron in steel mills, but one Gary advocacy group is encouraging steel mills to move toward using direct reduction. Blast furnaces are not the only type and create ...

You stop using fossil-fired blast furnaces to release the oxygen from iron ore, and you stop using baked coal, or coke, as a reductant to add the critical small percentage of carbon to your iron.

Finland-based Metso Corp. has opened a direct-reduced iron (DRI) smelting furnace pilot facility in Pori, Finland. The company says the new facility will allow customer-specific pilot-scale testing to ...

United States Steel Corp.’s board of directors has approved a $350 million investment that will support iron ore pellet production at the company’s Minnesota Ore Operations on the Iron Range.

NEW YORK/CHICAGO, Sept 5 (Reuters) - High costs and environmental opposition have prevented the construction of blast furnaces at steel mills in the United States since 1980. Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (CLF ...

Cleveland has big ambitions to reduce its planet-warming emissions. But a massive steelmaking facility run by Cleveland-Cliffs, one of Ohio’s major employers, could make it difficult for the city to ...