So they will shut down the smaller, less-efficient, more-polluting blast furnaces, but at the same time they will refocus all their production on the newest, largest blast furnaces.
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The company said it halted the plant's blast furnaces temporarily.
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Gupta said staff working on the blast furnaces could be retrained.
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"I remember when they tore the blast furnaces down," he said.
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The company built the Eliza blast furnaces over his little restaurant.
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Henry said BHP had long anticipated that shift in demand for higher quality iron ore and coking coal, as China moved its steelmaking blast furnaces to the coast, relied more on bigger blast furnaces and focused on the environment.
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Carnegie owned iron-ore deposits and rail carriages as well as blast furnaces.
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It has laid off workers and shut down some of its blast furnaces.
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Bengang owns four blast furnaces with a total capacity of around 10.75 million tonnes.
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Later that year, ArcelorMittal closed two blast furnaces, eliminating more than six hundred jobs.
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Our line in the sand has always been keeping two blast furnaces running (long term).
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Its blast furnaces pumped out soot that blanketed the land where the housing complex stands.
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To either side loom the rusting hulks of disused blast furnaces, wrapped in bulbous, elephantine pipework.
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The move could see one of Port Talbot's two blast furnaces shut, halving the plant's capacity.
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The ovens convert coal into coke, a fuel used in blast furnaces in iron ore smelting.
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So while U.S. Steel can celebrate the restart of two blast furnaces in Granite City, Ill.
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Labour, unlike oil, arable land, blast furnaces and many other productive resources, is required in every industry.
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Goldman Sachs said "too many blast furnaces" were restarted in response to a brief improvement in profitability.
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Outside, a towering smoke stack loomed above a landscape of blast furnaces and stockpiles of dangerous minerals.
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EAFs emit far less carbon than blast furnaces, which use coal as fuel, suiting China's anti-pollution campaign.
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According to Mysteel data, the capacity utilization rate at steel mill blast furnaces across China continued to climb.
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The pig iron that can be made here — in blast furnaces — is generally all consumed by American steelmakers.
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US Steel has shut some of its blast furnaces and laid off staff, citing the weaker market conditions.
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The company has announced that it would restart two blast furnaces at a plant in Granite City, Ill.
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Nippon Steel has 15 blast furnaces across Japan, with an annual crude steel capacity of 52 million tonnes.
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Big investments like blast furnaces and buildings are probably affected, one economist notes, but coffee and doughnut sales?
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But high fixed costs, testy trade unions—and Mr Trump himself—discourage companies from retiring old, inefficient blast furnaces.
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In 2006, Kobe Steel admitted falsifying soot-emissions data from the blast furnaces at Kobe Works and Kakogawa Works.
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China's switch to using higher-grade iron ore in its blast furnaces is seemingly built around three main factors.
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One possible bidder thinks he could replace Port Talbot's blast furnaces with plant that runs on scrap (see article).
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THE two giant blast furnaces at Port Talbot were still pouring out large volumes of molten iron this week.
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Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) offers iron ore futures , as well as coking coal and coke, used in blast furnaces.
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The Gary Works facility has four blast furnaces with an annual raw steel production capability of 7.5 million tons.
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"[Our competitors have] about 3 blast furnaces in the United States that are currently shut down," Ferriola told Cramer.
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The utilization rate at blast furnaces in Tangshan climbed 1.2 percentage points from late September to 61.59 percent on Oct.
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"We will resume blast furnace production at one or both idled blast furnaces when market conditions improve," said the company.
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But in recent months, the fires from the country's blast-furnaces have started to emit the warm glow of profits.
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Just 60% of steel blast-furnaces are now in use, down sharply since October and near a five-year low.
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Liberty House has outlined a plan to replace the giant blast furnaces with facilities to process imported slab steel instead.
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FOR 151 years blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, a town in northern England, have been churning out pig iron and steel.
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Decades ago, blacks, Irish, Italians and Eastern Europeans came to work among the great blast furnaces of the old mills.
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After going cold in 20163, for example, the blast furnaces are restarting at U.S. Steel's plant in Granite City, Ill.
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"They will shut down the smaller, less-efficient, more-polluting blast furnaces, but at the same time they will refocus all their production on the newest, largest blast furnaces," he said, reflecting that it could be "a great piece of news" for Rio Tinto as such a shift will require higher quality raw material.
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The bulk of China's steel is produced via blast furnaces where iron ore is melted and later mixed with steel scrap.
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Fitted with turbine-driven blast furnaces, the moths flame, spark, pop, and whine, as three human operators "play" them like instruments.
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Keenan, who had studied Greek and Latin at Yale, but had experience working on blast furnaces in Indiana, joined in 1913.
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Steel mills have been paying a premium for higher quality iron ore in order to maximise output from their blast furnaces.
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The local blast furnaces have just closed; teenagers now throw rocks at the empty buildings rather than expecting to work inside.
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The world's third-biggest steelmaker has 15 blast furnaces across Japan with two due to be shut by around March 2024.
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U.S. Steel said it would restart one of two idled blast furnaces at an Illinois steel plant, creating up to 500 jobs.
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"It's big things like blast furnaces and buildings — things that have a really long life and aren't easy to reverse," he said.
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Flat steel is mostly made from iron ore in coal-fired blast furnaces at large capital-intensive mills, often far from clients.
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In the 1950s, when Pittsburgh's blast furnaces were running full steam, the city was covered by a blanket of dark, acrid smoke.
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The city of Handan in Hebei, a top steel-making province, ordered 50 percent restrictions on blast furnaces to begin on Oct.
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But as coke-fired blast furnaces began to produce cast iron in the early 18th century coke also found its way into maltings.
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A 23 km-long (292 mile) conveyor belt that once carried coal from the nearby port is idle and blast furnaces rest silent.
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Blast furnaces cannot easily be turned on or off, but need to be continually supplied with raw materials to keep their temperature steady.
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Part of the reason that coal has been resurgent is that it is used to fuel blast furnaces in which steel is made.
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The utilisation rate at steel mill blast furnaces across China fell last week to the lowest level since at least 2012, data showed.
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Secured systems operating steel blast furnaces and power plants in Duisburg, in Germany's industrial heartland in the Ruhr Valley, were unaffected, the company said.
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Smaller electric-arc furnaces are more efficient, thanks in large part to cheaper electricity, and can compete on quality and cost with blast furnaces.
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During the industrial revolution this was known as the Black Country because the fumes from the local blast furnaces and coalfields turned everything black.
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To take one example, steel and iron are made using blast furnaces that burn coke (a form of "cooked" coal with high-carbon content).
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Shares in Usiminas, which said it had halted the plant's blast furnaces temporarily, were down more than 9 pct on reports of the explosion.
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"I've spent so many years here that I just pray that it will start working again," Taqi said, next to silent, towering blast furnaces.
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In the wake of Steelmaggedon, Merrill sees the U.S. industry emerging with a smaller footprint, as new electric arc furnaces replace older blast furnaces.
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U.S. Steel earlier this year reopened one of the plant's blast furnaces after Trump announced 25 percent tariffs on some steel and aluminum imports.
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The towers of blast furnaces rise from the east at Port Talbot's struggling steel plant, where workers worry about the fate of their jobs.
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At blast furnaces in Tangshan, China's top steelmaking city, those rates are expected to hover at around 61% in July and August, analysts estimate.
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The plan: restart two blast furnaces and steelmaking facilities at the company's Granite City Works integrated plant — one now and the other in October.
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"I don't have to wake up early," said Tang Guomin, 22010, who had labored at the blast furnaces since he was 242 years old.
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In addition to the European layoffs, US Steel has been forced to close blast furnaces and lay off US workers in Michigan and Indiana.
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Pig iron production from blast furnaces, which process iron ore and have dominated China's steel sector, dropped 4.4 percent in December from a year ago.
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In the two decades since the blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel went silent, the local economy did not follow the once-mighty company into decline.
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Weekly utilization rates at steel mills' blast furnaces across the country slipped last week to the lowest since mid-April, according to the Mysteel consultancy.
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The weekly utilization rate at blast furnaces in steel mills across the country plunged in late September, falling to 56.2% in the week ended Oct.
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It's likely that steel mills and producers of coke - which is made from coking coal and used in blast furnaces - have been running down inventories.
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The company announced earlier in the summer that it would suspend operations at two blast furnaces, one at its Great Lakes Works in Ecorse, Mich.
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Blast furnaces are operating at lower output to adjust to the reduced capacity of the steel-making process, the spokesman added, without giving specific volumes.
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"To achieve further reductions of cost and capacity, we will idle one of the blast furnaces in Raahe at the end of November", the company said.
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Public money would help Scunthorpe mothball its uncompetitive blast furnaces that produce unprocessed steel, import it instead, and focus on making end-products like rail lines.
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Some steel mills will be ordered to halt sintering and pellet production, and some will also have to curtail blast furnaces operations by at least 50%.
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Xuansteel will build four new blast furnaces and five new converters with total iron and steel capacity of 7.32 million tons and 7.47 million tons, respectively.
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Britain produces around 10 million tonnes of scrap steel annually, most of which it exports, while importing iron ore and coking coal to run blast furnaces.
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The Hangzhou steel mill, a vast labyrinth of blast furnaces, warehouses, chimneys and worker dormitories covering hundreds of acres, was one of Mao Zedong's favorite projects.
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In mid-June, the company said it would idle two blast furnaces at its Great lakes and Gary Works plants, citing lower steel prices and softening demand.
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Friday's announcement by U.S. Steel Kosice follows a June decision to cut output at its plant by a third by closing one of its three blast furnaces.
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In July and August, Tangshan city ordered curbs and some suspensions at sintering and coke plants, which turn coal into a fuel for use in blast furnaces.
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Steel mills with blast furnaces, coke plants, and primary aluminium and alumina producers able to meet ultra-low emission standards will be exempt from winter output cuts.
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The changes in Brazil would lead to the closure of two blast furnaces and one steel mill over 2016-2018, concentrating all steel production at the Jeceaba facility.
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EAFs, or mini-mills, use scrap steel and emit far less carbon than blast furnaces, which have to go through the polluting sintering process to make hot metal.
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Basic oxygen, or blast, furnaces, are rare in the U.S. but have seen a growth in activity under the Trump administration's policies meant to help the steel industry.
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It announced in June that it would idle two of its blast furnaces in the US, one in Indiana and one in Michigan, plus another furnace in Europe.
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During a call with investors Tuesday he said the deal could allow the Ashland plant to reopen to produce pig iron, a steel component, at its blast furnaces.
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In 2006, it also exceeded established limits for ground and water pollution, and admitted to falsifying soot-emissions data from blast furnaces at Kobe Works and Kakogawa Works.
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If hell exists, it might just resemble the enormous blast furnaces at TimkenSteel that turns two million tons of junked cars, old appliances, and other scrap into new steel.
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However, moving blast furnaces and other large equipment from China's remote northwest interior all the way to southern Southeast Asia in a cost-effective way will be a challenge.
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Blast furnaces in the world's top producer and consumer of steel are as a result operating at their lowest rate in about four months, data from industry consultancy Custeel.
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U.S. Steel said it will also idle one of its blast furnaces in Europe where increasing levels of imports and higher raw material costs are hurting the company's operations.
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Rather it appears the authorities want to continue to rationalize steel capacity and target illegal factories in a bid to cut pollution from burning coal in steel blast furnaces.
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The sintering process, where iron ore is heated into a mass as a precursor to making hot metal, and blast furnaces are expected to be major targets in curbing pollution.
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The view of the area's bustling chemical plants, roaring blast furnaces and booming seaport inspired the opening shots of Sir Ridley's 2250 film, "Blade Runner", set in a dystopian 23.
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This highly efficient facility has cutting-edge green technologies that greatly reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, recycle waste gas from blast furnaces and reuse almost all wastewater.
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This would include various efficiency measures intended to make producing new steel at the two blast furnaces profitable by the end of 2017, continuing the work of the present owners.
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This is largely a reflection of a tighter domestic market in the wake of enforced closures of some blast furnaces over winter as part of measures to reduce air pollution.
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Certainly, there is increasing evidence that steel output curbs are starting to take effect, with the utilisation rate at blast furnaces dropping to 71 percent in the week to Nov.
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Inventories have fallen for the past five weeks, said Lau, adding that the utilization rate at China's blast furnaces is also 9 percentage points below the same period last year.
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Producers have also been maximising the efficiency of their blast furnaces by using higher grades of iron ore, allowing them to make more steel without a corresponding increase in emissions.
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The paper said all three of its blast furnaces were still in full operation when the plant was visited by inspectors on July 19, and its general manager had been detained.
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Aglow with details of pig iron, blast furnaces, ingots, and "the roaring, pulsating, pounding, hissing organism that is a steel mill", Keenan's memoir was an odd book for Forster to choose.
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JFE Steel, Japan's second-biggest steelmaker and a unit of JFE Holdings Inc, said last month that one of its three blast furnaces in western Japan had been shut since Oct.
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Stock prices have also fallen at the steel titans ArcelorMittal and U.S. Steel, which delighted Mr. Trump with its decision last year to restart idled blast furnaces in Granite City, Ill.
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Mills rated "B-level" and "C-level" will need to halt sintering and pellet production, and "C-level" plants will also have to curtail blast furnaces operations by more than 50%.
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Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province and south of Hebei, ordered blast furnaces to cut production by 50 percent during the heating season and put restrictions on other types of steel furnaces.
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Beijing's imposition of winter pollution curbs may limit some demand for iron ore, but also encourage a move to higher grades as mills seek to maximise the output of blast furnaces.
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However, stricter environmental controls have cut restocking demand by mills for iron ore fines, which need to go through a high-polluting sintering process before being used in iron-making blast furnaces.
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Down in the valley, however, the Austrian city's skyline is dotted with piles of coal, smoke-belching funnels and the blackened silhouettes of blast furnaces, the home of Voestalpine, an Austrian steelmaker.
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The plant's two giant blast furnaces are clearly visible from anywhere in the town, a constant reminder of the umbilical link between the two and of the long history of steelmaking here.
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However, this is likely to be temporary as there will be enough operating blast furnaces to offset supply losses from the closures and as relatively low steel scrap prices help, Citi said.
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But inventories are high and there are signs that the authorities in Beijing are serious about cutting excess steel capacity and limiting pollution from burning coal in blast furnaces to make steel.
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Digital SLR and iPhone cameras snapped as it was placed into a new steel capsule, forged, just like the one before, inside the searing blast furnaces of Severstal, the city's steel plant.
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"We are idling two blast furnaces in the United States and one blast furnace in Europe to better align our global production with our order book," U.S. Steel said in a statement.
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Granite City Works will have one of its two blast furnaces and its steelmaking restarted, and about 500 employees will be brought back to work starting this month, U.S. Steel announced Wednesday.
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Jiangsu province is China's second-largest steel producing region and its output of coke, used to smelt iron ore in blast furnaces, accounts for 5 percent of the country's total on average.
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The action plan also targets installing dust collection equipment at blast furnaces by the end of July and desulfurisation equipment for pelleting processing units at all steel mills by the end of October.
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WINTER POLLUTION Beijing's imposition of winter pollution curbs may limit some demand for iron ore, but also encourage a move to higher grades as mills seek to maximise the output of blast furnaces.
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WINTER POLLUTION Beijing's imposition of winter pollution curbs may limit some demand for iron ore, but also encourage a move to higher grades as mills seek to maximize the output of blast furnaces.
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Late Tuesday US Steel announced it will idle two of the blast furnaces where it makes steel, one in its flagship mill in Gary, Indiana, near Chicago, the other in Ecorse, Michigan, near Detroit.
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"The government will not let them deliberately pursue the closure of blast furnaces, which would mean the end of any prospect of relaunching this productive investment and safeguarding employment levels," he wrote on Facebook.
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She's talking about the Christmas Eve fire at the Clairton Coking Facility, the plant owned by US Steel that turns coal into coke, a kind of charcoal that fuels the blast furnaces that make steel.
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By 2012, China was burning nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined, with half used to generate electricity and half used directly by industry (in steel mill blast furnaces, for instance).
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About 70 percent of steel in the world is produced using blast furnaces which use raw material, mainly iron ore, while the rest is produced via electric arc furnace which uses recycled steel or scrap.
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The source of the noise is believed to be the blast furnaces on nearby Zug Island, the industrial strip of land in the middle of the Detroit River, on the American side of the border.
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Julian Allwood, an engineering professor at Cambridge University, says Britain's best hope for saving its steel industry and maintaining long-term jobs is to scrap blast furnaces, which he predicts will disappear in any case.
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Last month, a senior Nippon Steel executive said the firm may close more blast furnaces under plans to reduce domestic facilities and cut costs, as falling demand and lower Asian steel prices eat into profit.
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Putin, with a backbone of steel tempered in the blast furnaces of the KGB, and as tough an operative as global intelligence has ever seen, does have some real and, in the right hands, exploitable weaknesses.
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"On top of our existing business models of exporting products from Japan and processing products in overseas, we will consider taking in some overseas steelworks that are equipped with blast furnaces and processing lines," he said.
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The second furnace to be idled is in the company's Great Lakes Works facility, located in Ecorse and River Rouge, Michigan, which has three blast furnaces with annual raw steel production capability of 3.8 million tons.
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"All of the facilities including blast furnaces are possible targets of consolidations," he said, citing that they need to mirror declining local demand due to shrinking population and higher export barriers amid growing trade conflicts worldwide.
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U.S. Steel on Wednesday said it would begin restarting one of two idled blast furnaces at its Granite City, Illinois, steel plant – a process that will take up to four months and could support 500 jobs.
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Steelmakers in Southeast Asia have been hit hard as many of the region's electric arc furnace plants, which use scrap as their raw material, are unable to compete with Chinese blast furnaces using far cheaper iron ore.
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The reduction process generates as much as 22% of the CO22 emissions in steelmaking, so HYBRIT wants to stop relying on blast furnaces, introduce DRI instead and use hydrogen rather than natural gas as the reducing agent.
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In the 2012 presidential race, Mr. Hollande sought blue-collar support at a threatened steel plant in Florange in northeastern France, but unions later accused him of betraying them after the plant's blast furnaces were kept idle.
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The world's third-biggest steelmaker plans to close two blast furnaces at Kure Works in western Hiroshima, operated by subsidiary Nippon Steel Nisshin, and may even shut down the entire steelworks including processing plants, the Nikkei said.
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BEIJING, Sept 13 (Reuters) - China's Bengang Steel Plates Co said it aimed to honour deliveries to customers after a fire at one of its blast furnaces on Friday shut down more than a third of its ironmaking capacity.
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The weekly utilisation rates at blast furnaces in steel mills in China were around 67 percent last month before dipping to 65.75 percent this week as winter restrictions started in mid-November, according to data from Mysteel consultancy.
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Clearing the 1,13 acre site, once a clanging, smoking hub with blast furnaces, gas and cooling towers and coke ovens, took six years alone and more work underground needs to be done before the land can be redeveloped.
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In February, its bigger peer Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp said it would take control of fourth-ranked rival Nisshin Steel Co Ltd and shut one of Nisshin's two blast furnaces in the face of a global supply glut.
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Another way to go green is to reduce the amount of clinker in cement by using waste substitutes such as fly ash from coal plants or slag from steel blast furnaces, but these are becoming scarcer and more expensive.
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"Too many blast furnaces have been reheated, and excess steel production is driving a modest restocking at a time when inventories are usually drawn down," Goldman analysts Christian Lelong and Amber Cai said in a report dated May 26.
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The weekly utilization rate at blast furnaces in steel mills across the country climbed as high as 68.65 percent in mid-October, a level last seen on July 20, according to data compiled by Mysteel consultancy and released on Fridays.
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Iron ore pellets, typically with 226% iron content or above, can be shoveled directly into blast furnaces without going through a dirtier process known sintering, where low-grade ore is mixed with other products to create a blast furnace fuel.
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His teachers at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, where he began studying in 1977, were Bernd and Hilla Becher, a couple whose austere photographs of industrial buildings, from water towers to blast furnaces, were among the most celebrated images in contemporary art.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top steel maker Baowu Group is studying plans to relocate blast furnaces from remote Xinjiang to Cambodia in a bold example of China's heavy industry shifting excess capacity overseas, a source familiar with the firm's plans said.
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Indian-born Gupta, who established Liberty House while a student at Cambridge in the early 1990s, has said Port Talbot and its jobs could be saved if the giant blast furnaces were replaced with facilities to process imported slab steel instead.
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The steel industry is also evolving as companies invest in new methods to make the metal, shifting from blast furnaces that rely on the area's taconite ore to newer electric arc furnaces that primarily melt scrap to make new steel.
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The two sources commenting on Gupta said his bid was based on replacing one of the two blast furnaces at British Steel's Scunthorpe site with an electric arc furnace (EAF) that would recycle scrap and emit much less carbon dioxide.
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Chinese customs data classifies North Korean coal as anthracite, which is a grade of coal high in energy content, making it ideal for use in the steel blast furnaces and ceramic factories in the northeast provinces close to North Korea.
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Weekly utilization rates at blast furnaces across China had reached 70.86 percent as of Friday, not much lower than the 8-month peak level of 71.96 percent in late May, data from Mysteel consultancy showed, as seasonal maintenance at mills kicked in.
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But Representative Mike Bost, a Republican whose district saw U.S. Steel restart two blast furnaces and rehire 800 workers at its Granite City, Illinois mill last year, made clear that he was focused on rebuilding steelmaking capacity in the United States, not Canada.
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Baowu is looking at the feasibility of shipping two blast furnaces, with a combined capacity of 3.1 million tonnes, along with two converters to turn iron into steel, to Cambodia in late 2019, a senior Baowu manager involved with the plan told Reuters.
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United States Steel on Tuesday said it would idle two blast furnaces in the United States and a third in Europe, as lower steel prices and softening demand led the steel producer to forecast current-quarter earnings below the Wall Street estimates.
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He has not yet carried out due diligence on the business which includes the huge Port Talbot plant in south Wales but said that site could be saved if the giant blast furnaces were replaced under a plan to modernise the operations.
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Jim McCaughan of Principal Global Investors says he is not too concerned about this since the nature of capital has changed; no longer is the economy dominated by manufacturing where businesses have to invest in heavy equipment, blast furnaces and the like.
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High-grade ore is exactly what Chinese steel mills have preferred in recent months as it allows them to maximize output from their blast furnaces, and limit the amount of coal used and the air pollution created per tonne of crude steel produced.
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Baowu is looking at the feasibility of shipping two blast furnaces, with a combined capacity of 23.7 million tonnes, along with two converters to turn iron into steel, to Cambodia in late 22, a senior Baowu manager involved with the plan told Reuters.
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High-grade ore is exactly what Chinese steel mills have preferred in recent months as it allows them to maximise output from their blast furnaces, and limit the amount of coal used and the air pollution created per tonne of crude steel produced.
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As iron ore prices surge, the spread between medium- and low-grade iron ore in China has narrowed to its smallest in two-and-half years, with some buyers turning to low-grade product from countries like India to fill blast furnaces.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Just a few blocks from the rusted 16-story blast furnaces that once fired hulking steel beams for the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge, OraSure Technologies each day produces thousands of thumbnail-size pads made to spit on.
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The Sunday Times said a delegation from Excalibur met Liberty's owner, Sanjeev Gupta, in London on Friday to discuss backing Gupta's long-term plan to replace blast furnaces at Tata's Port Talbot plant in Wales with facilities to process imported slab steel.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp may close more blast furnaces as part of plans to reduce domestic facilities to cut costs, said a senior executive, as falling demand and lower Asian steel prices eat into its annual profit forecast.
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But with Tata Steel looking to extend the life of one of its two Port Talbot blast furnaces and a new vision at the firm's Indian parent following a top level management change last year, industry sources say those concerns are receding.
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According to a notice posted on the environment ministry's official Wechat account, Minmetals Yingkou Medium-Sized Plate Co Ltd in the northeastern province of Liaoning had failed to replace its outdated blast furnaces and production lines, and had not properly dealt with pollution discharges.
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"Sintering machines and blast furnaces will be major targets of production cuts in the steel sector and could be at as much as 50 percent depending on emission levels at mills," an official at the environment department of Tangshan's government told Reuters by phone.
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Given the sheer scale of some of the equipment -- blast furnaces can weigh thousands of tonnes -- the most likely route will be by train to China's east coast, and then by ship to southern Cambodia, a journey of more than 6,000 km, analysts said.
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Given the sheer scale of some of the equipment — blast furnaces can weigh thousands of tonnes — the most likely route will be by train to China's east coast, and then by ship to southern Cambodia, a journey of more than 6,000 km, analysts said.
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Loss of steel-making at the Port Talbot plant, which has two blast furnaces for making raw steel, would have been devastating to the economy of South Wales, a once-thriving industrial hub that has seen many high-paying jobs disappear in recent decades.
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Set in the steel town of Port Talbot — the childhood home of the actors Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen — "Bang" rises from a less bucolic Wales than shows like "Keeping Faith" and "Hidden," its moody shoreline juxtaposed against a backdrop of blast furnaces and smokestacks.
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The reduction comes as JFE now expects to produce 28 million tonnes of crude steel for the year, down from its previous plan of 29 million tonnes, due to severe rains in July and September and technical trouble at one of its three blast furnaces in western Japan.
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TOKYO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Nippon Steel Corp will likely cut about 10% of crude steel capacity by closing both blast furnaces at its Kure site "within a few years" to better compete in the face of rising output in top producer China, Nikkei business daily reported on Friday.
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Steel intends to source slabs from its own domestic facilities * Blast furnaces and steelmaking facilities will remain idled * United states steel - plans to take periodic outages at Gary works , great lakes works, Mon valley works to improve capabilities and reliability of hot strip mills Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Mills in the two cities will have to cut back the operations at about 20 percent of their blast furnaces under the restrictions for the April to June period, down from 30 percent for the restrictions during the November to March period, according to the five sources who spoke to Reuters on Friday and Saturday.
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The industry is split: on the one hand, struggling integrated firms (such as loss-making US Steel) which use blast furnaces that forge steel out of iron ore, coal and gas; and on the other more nimble firms with electric-arc furnaces such as Nucor that employ scrap as raw material and rely on electricity for fuel.
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Two senior officials from the Community labor union said in a message emailed to union members last week and seen by Reuters, that Tata has only pledged to keep the two blast furnaces at Port Talbot running for three years, at which point one of them is due to close in the absence of further investment.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads If not for Dawn Clements' panoramic drawings, I doubt I would have connected the still-life paintings of the 17th-century Spanish artist Juan Sanchez Cotan and the black-and-white photographs of blast furnaces and cooling towers by Bernd and Hilla Becher with the Memory Palace — the imaginary construction that enables the storage of mnemonic images.
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