Not far away, scrap iron melted at 3,000 degrees in an RIT student-made cupola furnace is poured into lotus flower-shaped molds. Kelly Wilton, instructional support specialist in the College of Art ...

But in Kenya there is enough money in charcoal to make “big, big people" get rich by transporting it, he says. Charcoal has fuelled Africa’s urbanisation. It is dense in energy and hard to ...

As a case in point, in August 2024, the company embarked on a multi-year project to replace 2 coke-fired cupola furnaces with 1 electric melting furnace at its Paroc Hällekis insulation plant in ...

The head of one of the main relief agencies trying to help the people of Sudan says the situation in the country is the worst it has ever been. She says the month of April has been the bloodiest ...

Xita Lao Tai Tai, China’s Number 1 charcoal BBQ brand is said to be the Haidilao of the country’s BBQ scene. The chain with over 600 outlets across China hails from Shenyang, and its first-ever ...

55,000 tonnes of blast furnace coke have arrived in the UK to fuel the furnaces, and shipments of iron ore are soon to arrive. A steel worker at one of the blast furnaces at the British Steel site ...

While it is possible to turn blast furnaces off and on again, Sky News science correspondent Thomas Moore explains it is a "dangerous and expensive process". First of all, there is no switch that ...

Britain's government on Monday raced to secure raw materials to keep the country's last steelmaking blast furnaces running after passing emergency legislation to take control of British Steel.

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 ...

In 2023, JFE's top executive said the company was considering replacing the No.2 blast furnace at Kurashiki with a high-grade steel-producing EAF around 2027, when the unit is due for refurbishment.

Dr Ian Kelly, chief executive of the chamber, said nationalisation is essential to protect the blast furnaces and keep thousands of local jobs, both at the plant and in the wider supply chain.