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 ...
Canada’s steel industry is witnessing significant changes as some of its steelmakers transition from blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) methods of primary steelmaking to a more ...
Moving hot metal to a basic oxygen furnace to make steel.Seong Joon Cho/Worldsteel—Getty Images The basic process for making steel hasn’t changed a whole lot in the past few hundred years. Into the ...
A worker uses an electric furnace to make steel. Steelmaking contributes roughly 7–9% of human-made greenhouse gas emissions, posing a huge climate challenge. Credit: Shutterstock Achieving that ...