One of AK Steel Holding Corp.’s three blast furnaces is back to full production capacity after it was shut down for repairs, the company said on Dec. 4. Fixes at Ashland Works in Kentucky lasted about ...

The upcoming maintenance outage at AK Steel’s Ashland Works blast furnace will not impact production at the Middletown Works blast furnace, according to AK Steel spokesman Mike Wallner. “It’s ...

Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea's second-largest steelmaker, has started operations for its second blast furnace, sharply boosting its output capacity. The new furnace is located at the company’s steel ...

Broken and cracked valves, 70-year-old and outdated equipment and more were some of the initial findings of the Chemical ...

In April, the government took emergency control of Chinese-owned British Steel after legislation was rushed through ...

Nippon Steel, the parent company of U.S. Steel, is moving forward with its plans to renovate a giant coal-fueled furnace in Gary, Indiana. The Japan-based steel manufacturer, which acquired U.S. Steel ...

Mumbia, India-based JSW Steel Ltd. and Tokyo-based JFE Steel Corp. have commenced a pilot demonstration of cloud-based Cyber Physical System (CPS) technologies for blast furnace operations at JSW ...

U.S. Steel is restarting blast furnace #4 at its Gary Works steel mill earlier than anticipated as the steel market recovers. The Pittsburgh-based steelmaker, one of Northwest Indiana's largest ...

US Steel Corp. is idling an Illinois blast furnace that Donald Trump visited as part of his self-proclaimed “rescue” of the American steel industry five years ago, as it moves to balance production ...

AK Steel’s blast furnace in Ashland, Ky., which already unexpectedly shut down once this year due to some kind of malfunction in February, has shut down again. “AK Steel recently experienced an ...

U.S. Steel Corp. is idling an Illinois blast furnace that Donald Trump visited as part of his self-proclaimed “rescue” of the American steel industry five years ago, as it moves to balance production ...