British Steel is initiating consultations to close its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe after negotiations with the UK government regarding financial aid for a transition to electric arc furnaces fell ...

Tata Steel has appointed Sir Robert McAlpine to install two electric arc furnaces at its Port Talbot steelworks in Wales. The £1.25 billion project, supported by £500 million in government funding, ...

Up to 2,800 jobs are to be lost at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot facility as the company embarks on investing £1.25bn into electric arc furnace technology at the site. Tata Steel said the proposed ...

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Steel production in an electric arc furnace. Norenko Andrey/Shutterstock This method of steelmaking can use up to 100% scrap steel as its raw material, resulting in a significant reduction in carbon ...

Italy-based Danieli says it will be supplying four 150-metric-ton “zero-bucket ultra-high power electric arc furnace (EAF)” units to China-based steelmaker Guangdong Jinshenglan. The furnaces include ...

The Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) Group and the Corporate Technology (CT) department of Siemens AG have developed a new method of measuring the changes in the level of foaming slag in arc ...

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 ...