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According to industry analysts, Russian steelmakers will keep investing in blast furnaces rather than taking a turn toward decarbonisation technologies,…

Gerdau, the Brazilian steel producer, has announced that it will invest R$200 million in its Riograndense unit in Sapucaia do Sul. The funds will go…

Supporters of the Scunthorpe scaffolders in their pay dispute are planning to stage protests at key locations around the country, as the workers enter…

ArcelorMittal Belgium, a steel producer within the ArcelorMittal group, has awarded the chemical engineering company thyssenkrup Uhde an order for a…

SMS group of Germany is to improve the efficiency of Russian steelmaker Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works' processes with the use of ‘syngas’, a combination…

Following the European Commission imposing anti-dumping duties on imports of silicon-electrical steel from China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US,…

Direct reduction of iron ore in a fluidized bed reactor is usually limited by the onset of particle sticking at temperatures ≳ 800 °C. This paper examines the phase and microstructural evolution of New Zealand titanomagnetite (TTM) ironsand during fluidized bed reduction by hydrogen gas at temperatures ranging from 750 °C to 1000 °C. All samples were characterized using quantitative X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscope/energy dispersive spectroscopy. No sticking was observed a...

The new German government has unveiled plans to massively increase the ambition of its national hydrogen strategy. Yet, despite demands from the steel…

A new report to MEPs has laid bare the gulf between what has been pledged and what is actually needed to green the EU’s steel industry. Steel manufacturing accounts for nearly 6% of EU emissions but consumers are largely oblivious to the carbon cost embedded in roads, buildings and railways because they do not buy the metal directly.

Harsco Corporation, a global market leader providing environmental solutions for industrial and specialty by-products, and a leading provider of on-site…