The transition away from labor-intensive blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steelmaking in the United States has involved highly visible layoffs and stranded assets. It also has entailed shifts ...

The LD oxygen furnaces at the Richard Thomas & Baldwins mill are the newest weapon that steelmen around the world are wielding to compete with cement, aluminum and plastics. Pure oxygen, when blown ...

Don Young still vividly recalls the day 25 years ago when he rode the Philadelphia Bethlehem & New England Railroad engine to take molten iron from Bethlehem Steel’s final operating blast furnace to ...

Operator of blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace mill in England has started to consult on proposed closure of its steelmaking complex. “The difficult decision has been made to consult with employees ...