This article was originally featured on Undark. In the city of Woburn, Massachusetts, a suburb just north of Boston, a cadre of engineers and scientists in white coats inspected an orderly stack of ...

Viktor Mácha’s day job is in real estate. But his true passion is his Beauty of Steel Project, in which he is photographing every single steel mill he can get himself into. He has now taken more than ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The steelmaking industry is expanding in the state's northeastern region, and the opportunity to get trained has become possible due to a $1.2 million grant. The Arkansas Office ...

Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as more utilities and companies invest in renewable energy. But one major coal consumer—the steel industry—is finding it harder to kick its ...

After holding at approximately 25 percent of global steelmaking production for about a decade through 2012, the migration to electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking accelerated during the past seven ...

The blast furnace will be replaced with an electric arc furnace which produces less carbon dioxide, but needs fewer workers Steelworkers have drilled the final hole in the last remaining blast furnace ...

Steel is the most commonly used metal and fulfills a variety of structural and construction needs, along with being an essential material for the production of vehicles, mechanical equipment, and ...

Very soon, that flame will burn out for good, marking a new era of steelmaking.

Steel prices have risen steadily in the first four months of 2021, and CEO Lourenco Goncalves of Cleveland-Cliffs said it is about time that “a ton of steel is worth more than a ton of bananas.” In a ...

On the day after Christmas 2013, John Ferriola received a FedEx package containing a dozen metal pellets, each about the size of a blueberry and the color of charcoal. They had been refined with ...

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