Ironmaking could be on the edge of a major upgrade. Scientists have developed a cleaner, electrochemical method to extract ...

British Steel staff and civil servants race to keep Scunthorpe blast furnaces on - Officials from the Department for Business ...

Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there’s growing demand for iron-derived ...

British Steel staff launch race to keep Scunthorpe blast furnaces on - Dozens of businesses have rallied to help British ...

Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified elemental metal, but the process requires a lot of energy and emits air pollution. Now, researchers report that they've developed a ...

The last blast furnaces left operating in Britain could see their fate sealed within days, after their Chinese owners took the decision to cut off the crucial supply of ...

Iron ore go up, dividends go up ... The monthly Atlantic Blast Furnace 65% Fe pellet premium index as quoted by Platts (the "pellet premium") averaged US$40 per tonne in 2024, a decrease of ...

Read more: Thousands of jobs at risk as British Steel consults unions over closure The fate of the blast furnaces - the last two domestic sources of virgin steel, made from iron ore rather than ...

University of Oregon chemists are bringing a greener way to make iron metal for steel production closer to reality, a step ...

Kelly Christmas and Sean Robinson fear the closure of the blast furnaces would have dire ... grew rapidly following the discovery of iron ore here in 1859. Outside, Ms Weber, 65, the daughter ...