The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that furnace is the charcoal fire of ...

Finland-based Metso Corp. has opened a direct-reduced iron (DRI) smelting furnace pilot facility in Pori, Finland. The company says the new facility will allow customer-specific pilot-scale testing to ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Perth, Australia, July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NeoSmelt consortium has selected Hatch as a major technology ...

The world’s largest steelmaking nation has just switched on a new kind of blast furnace, one that trades coal for hydrogen ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

PERTH, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Australia’s two largest iron ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location to develop Australia’s ...

The blast furnace remains the cornerstone of high‐volume ironmaking, utilising complex thermal and chemical reactions to reduce iron oxides into molten iron. Contemporary operations place increasing ...

Rio Tinto has for many years been a trusted supplier to the world’s iron and steel industry, particularly in South East Asia, where its Australian mines offer cost-effective raw material. The company ...

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