Here's what to look for: Furnaces: The Department of Energy is proposing conservation standards for residential furnaces.
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In March 2015, the agency proposed new standards for residential non-weatherized gas furnaces and mobile home gas furnaces, but after receiving requests for separate standards for small furnaces the agency has decided to expand its proposal.
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For heating, natural gas furnaces are cleaner than heating oil furnaces, but not as clean as electric heat pumps once electricity gets cleaner.
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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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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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Qiu said the growth in annual output was probably because production from electric furnaces, which have replaced illegal induction furnaces, was included on the balance sheet.
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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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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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"Irrespective of what happens with Tata, we will set up our furnaces across the country at various concentration points," he said of plans to use electric arc furnaces to produce recycled steel.
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Cars, airplanes, furnaces, and power plants all emit carbon dioxide.
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The company said it halted the plant's blast furnaces temporarily.
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So does replacing fuel oil furnaces with natural gas ones.
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Gupta said staff working on the blast furnaces could be retrained.
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They operate furnaces knows as "retorts" that burn wood into charcoal.
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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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And new natural gas furnaces are still going in every day.
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Men and women, faces swaddled in cloth, hunch over steel furnaces.
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And, we create 95% less emissions compared to traditional gas-fired furnaces.
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Many lack working electrical systems or are missing water pipes and furnaces.
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The share of steel produced in coal furnaces will continue to fall.
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Shiploads of alabaster artwork escaped the furnaces and were sent to France.
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The standards also apply to residential hydronic heaters and forced-air furnaces.
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The two retorts, as cremation furnaces are called, looked like oversize refrigerators.
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Furnaces often did not work properly, leaving homes freezing cold in winter.
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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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Carrier is best known for its air-conditioners, but it also sells a variety of other heating and cooling equipment for homes and businesses, like the gas furnaces and fan coils for electric furnaces made at the Indianapolis factory.
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IN RECENT DAYS heatwaves have turned swathes of America and Europe into furnaces.
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Your solo career seems fairly different from your work in the Fiery Furnaces.
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Carnegie owned iron-ore deposits and rail carriages as well as blast furnaces.
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Over the years, Shannon got to know the furnaces as intimately as people.
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A few years ago, Shannon found him behind the furnaces, straining to breathe.
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A few old furnaces are set to be part of a historical park.
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When the church grew quiet, a symphony of whistling furnaces could be heard.
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It has laid off workers and shut down some of its blast furnaces.
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Many small workshops, which often use small metalworking furnaces, have also been targeted.
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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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Bengang owns four blast furnaces with a total capacity of around 10.75 million tonnes.
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As if you were standing by a freshly dug grave ... Factory furnaces were left.
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I mean, all the other guys may have moved their gas furnaces to Mexico.
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Work will be performed on two of the furnaces on the 40,000 bpd coker.
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The police seized nearly a ton of mercury from three furnaces in the village.
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Instead, 80 percent of US electronic waste ends up in landfills or incineration furnaces.
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Later that year, ArcelorMittal closed two blast furnaces, eliminating more than six hundred jobs.
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Graphite electrodes are used in electric arc furnaces that recycle scrap metal into steel.
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Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas produced by combustion in engines and furnaces.
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It moved back to the EAF after the closure of all the nation's induction furnaces.
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His father was an Italian immigrant who tended coal furnaces; his mother was a homemaker.
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In the second scenario, we keep piling coal in the furnaces like there's no tomorrow.
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Graphite electrodes are used to melt scrap in electric arc furnaces to produce new steel.
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Things like broken-down cars, busted furnaces, and unexpected layoffs happen to people every day.
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It is the reason that so many iron furnaces were originally built in this area.
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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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Activists complained that United States Steel, which operates the furnaces, has been uncooperative and secretive.
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Some occupants leave ovens on in the winter, their doors perched open, because furnaces fail.
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Buildings will be heated by electricity (such as heat pumps) rather than boilers and furnaces.
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China has promised again and again to reduce production and mothball steel mills and furnaces.
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Crude steel output still rose, suggesting mills produced more from electric furnaces that consume scrap metal.
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To either side loom the rusting hulks of disused blast furnaces, wrapped in bulbous, elephantine pipework.
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Oil shale is a sedimentary rock that can be burned directly in furnaces to generate electricity.
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Furnaces across China are running at 86 percent, their lowest since June, according to the data.
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All of the jobs in question also deal with furnaces, though Carrier does make air conditioners.
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Here's what to look for: The Department of Energy is proposing conservation standards for residential furnaces.
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The Titanic had four smokestacks (or funnels), but only three actually carried smoke from the furnaces.
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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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In China's steel sector this means tracking down and eliminating small scrap operators, using induction furnaces.
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Shannon still tended the furnaces each night, pretending that President Trump would still save their jobs.
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Carrier is known for its air conditioners, but the plant Trump was standing in makes furnaces.
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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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Burning of crop stubble, steel manufacturing furnaces and brick kilns are other major sources, he said.
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Burning of crop stubble, steel manufacturing furnaces and brick kilns are other major sources, he said.
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Buyers said they were surprised to find homes that lacked working plumbing, furnaces and electrical systems.
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Water deluged the basement and furnaces of a six-unit apartment building owned by Sandy Kelly.
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Because it merely moves, rather than generates, heat, it is far more efficient than combustion furnaces.
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Petroleum-fueled cars are the obvious example, but there's also propane heating, natural gas furnaces, etc.
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The company shut down its plants, sold off its furnaces and announced plans to settle its debt.
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Her studio today is much like she created Raku pottery within, equal parts destructive and gestational furnaces.
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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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In its solid form, it can be re-melted in electric arc furnaces, much like steel scrap.
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Mr. Morrison began by shoveling slag out of the furnaces, working his way up to crane driver.
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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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To the extent that Carrier makes air-conditioners and furnaces, you can hit them with the pocketbook.
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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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Those steps would include trying to cut the amount of coal used for winter furnaces and heaters.
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After all, you can't turn off a cow, and you don't want to idle any more furnaces.
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Right now, electrifying the residential sector by replacing fossil fuel furnaces with heat pumps is basically ... nowhere.
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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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Silicon is melted in electric furnaces and, at the moment, most electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels.
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China has forced the closure of a swathe of smaller steel induction furnaces over the last two years.
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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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Here's what is happening: Efficiency: The Department of Energy (DOE) is delaying new efficiency rules for residential furnaces.
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Changing out old heating oil furnaces for new natural gas ones, as some utilities incentivize, also fared well.
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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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Then they sell those batteries to factories that melt lead scrap in furnaces to be resold to dealers.
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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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The work involves demolishing old furnaces used in the refining process for the metal and installing new ones.
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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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Policy No. 1141 insured a slave known as Warwick, who fed the fiery furnaces on a Kentucky steamboat.
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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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And as temperatures drop, energy demand shoots up, with people spending more time indoors and switching on furnaces.
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The idled furnaces will cut production by about 200,000 tons of steel or more a month, the company said.
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The sun's low arc across the winter sky means the solar "furnaces" get direct rays when they're needed most.
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Right: A war worker stands in front of the furnaces at the South Metropolitan Gas Company in London, 1918.
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Small and inefficient mills like this one were supposed to close and larger ones to shut down some furnaces.
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It's not ideal for furnaces or stoves, but if you're on a budget, it can keep the basics on.
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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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There is more substance to the claim that they have brought American furnaces and smelters roaring back to life.
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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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Releasing pressure from the furnaces can make a terrible racket, but it is necessary to keep them from exploding.
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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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Ceramic fiber is often used for insulating furnaces, so withholding a small fire doesn't seem out of the question.
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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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This would eventually involve installing energy-efficient electric arc furnaces of the sort seen in "mini-mills" in America.
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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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In another session, the gravely ill rested in chilly carehouses while great steam automatons mined coal for their 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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The cost savings of not installing new gas lines or separate furnaces and air conditioners are an added benefit.
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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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Most has gone into "electric arc" furnaces, which smelt steel more cheaply from scrap metal rather than from iron ore.
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Commercial 3D printers (like the HP Jet Fusion family) are production-grade digital furnaces that sit next to CNC machines.
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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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Nucor and Steel Dynamics use mini-mills instead, melting scrap steel with electric furnaces and tinkering with the carbon content.
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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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By 1900, Sears was fulfilling 100,000 orders a day, and its catalog featured fur coats, furnaces, furniture and much more.
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Dominion's activity ranges from installing telecom networks to maintenance of large-scale furnaces in the steel, chemical and glassmaking industries.
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The run up in steel prices is due to a shortage of steel products after inefficient induction furnaces were shut.
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" It said Petromonagas had cleaned one of its furnaces, but that the re-start would be determined by "corporate strategy.
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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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Cement makers are buying coal to replace the petroleum coke they use to fuel furnaces that make cement from minerals.
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GrafTech makes graphite electrode products used in electric arc furnaces to make steel and other ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
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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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Many of Katowice's residents still burn coal in furnaces inside their apartments for heating — a particularly harmful source of pollution.
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Low-income families tend to rely more on expensive heating fuels, and have older, less efficient furnaces, appliances and homes.
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York International — which makes air-conditioning systems, furnaces and the like — reported importing steel assemblies and complete products from overseas.
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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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Sources of carbon monoxide, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, include: • Unvented kerosene and gas space heaters • Leaking chimneys and furnaces • Back-drafting from furnaces • Gas water heaters, wood stoves and fireplaces • Gas stoves • Generators and other gasoline powered equipment • Automobile exhaust from attached garages • Tobacco smoke How does carbon monoxide poisoning happen?
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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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Furnaces at chemical, steel, non-ferrous metal and coking factories have to install ultra-low emission equipment by the same date.
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According to the Royal Mint's website, recycled coins are shredded and melted in large furnaces before being solidified for future use.
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The business has been suffering as cheap Chinese blast furnace steel took global market share from electric arc furnaces outside China.
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Analysts estimate induction furnaces produced about 50 million tonnes of rebar last year - about a quarter of China's total rebar output.
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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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Whatever the health hazard, the work paid better than anything else, and they were disappointed when the furnaces were shut down.
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REIT investments enable shareholders to avoid "landlord stress," be it late night calls about broken furnaces, roof leaks ... you name it.
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The government took over administration of the business in 2015 to try to save jobs and clean up its polluting furnaces.
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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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Dominion's activity ranges from installing telecom networks to the maintenance of large-scale furnaces in the steel, chemical and glassmaking industries.
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During 2014's Polar Vortex weather event, demand skyrocketed as buildings ran their furnaces at full output during the extreme cold.
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China is in the process of closing ageing, high-polluting steel mills and induction furnaces to curb overcapacity in the sector.
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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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He hauled rolls of brown paper from Alabama to Texas, radiator coils for furnaces and air-conditioners from Virginia to Iowa.
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Google is testing a feature that can send Nest owners alerts about their furnaces when "unusual or unexpected patterns" are detected.
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Google stresses in its blog post that the alerts are not meant to replace regular maintenance on furnaces and other equipment.
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Other measures include subsidies for electric cars and energy efficient heaters, with a ban on oil-burning furnaces starting in 2025.
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Other measures include subsidies for electric cars and energy efficient heaters, with a ban on oil-burning furnaces starting in 2025.
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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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But Todd Barnum, Linton Crystal's chief operating officer, said the cost of making furnaces entirely in the United States was prohibitive.
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"Apart from construction workers, those working in salt pans or near furnaces in factories are also feeling the impact," Ramakrishnan said.
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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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And renewed interest in electric arc furnaces (EAFs), or mini-mills that use only scrap, could fire up demand for recycled steel.
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A little over three gallons of gasoline can get you nine hours of power and backup for large appliances, lights, and furnaces.
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CO is produced by the incomplete combustion/ventilation of gas stoves, heating boilers, furnaces, propane barbecues, gas-powered water heaters & clothes dryers.
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Some of their large canvasses bring the viewer into urban streets framed by fiery furnaces that seemed to define the modern city.
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Nestled in scrubland are rows of depots, mills and furnaces; the complex covers 800 hectares, or four times the size of Monaco.
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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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Trump's tariffs prompted U.S. Steel to hire back about 2000 of those Granite City workers last year after restarting two furnaces there.
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But the days when Britain's furnaces turned out over 40% of the world's steel, exporting it to every continent, are long gone.
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Some major steel-producing towns are starting to fire back up their furnaces, Dean said, citing Youngstown, Ohio, as a prime example.
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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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Investment in renewable energy dropped 229%, while demand for coal rose, largely to keep Asia's furnaces burning as the region rapidly develops.
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"Who's my favorite foreign leader?" he responded blankly, as if Chris Matthews had demanded that he name his favorite Fiery Furnaces song.
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The 800 or so jobs that are being preserved are mostly on the lines that build medium- and high-efficiency gas furnaces.
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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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Downstairs, at a bank of computers, he radiates pride as he demonstrates how to regulate the flow of oxygen to its 13 furnaces.
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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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But, for instance, if I go way back and hear our first albums, the Fiery Furnaces albums, I don't even recognize that voice.
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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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Under the plan announced Wednesday, Carrier said it would keep producing furnaces in Indianapolis, preserving more than 1,000 jobs at the Indiana plant.
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One night when Gamel and Tyler Austin were living at the funeral parlor, smoke from the basement furnaces triggered the building's fire alarms.
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But they were less sure about judging the quality of furnaces, septic systems, roofs and other unglamorous but critical components of a house.
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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 city's furnaces made a high percentage of the world's horseshoes -- a product as important in the late 19th century as tires today.
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Some of the cash from commodities tycoon Sanjeev Gupta's GFG will go toward installing electric furnaces, which can reduce emissions by around 60%.
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In addition, parents may need to keep families indoors with air conditioners or furnaces off to avoid letting contaminated air into the home.
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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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"This year's steel output may have stood flat or actually fallen as output from induction furnaces was excluded (from data for 2016)," Qiu added.
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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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"In addition, some construction projects have been delayed due to a shortage of labor, slowing output at electric-arc furnaces," the federation's researcher said.
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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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The men who operate the furnaces that heat the water for hammams in the medina also keep the coals warm to cook tanjia overnight.
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"Cambodia is a preferred option ... But we also have a back-up plan of moving them (the furnaces) to Pakistan," said the Baowu manager.
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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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Unlike electric arc furnaces, IFs have limited or no capacity to remove impurities in the process of producing steel, resulting in inconsistent product quality.
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This includes the Transportation Department's rules for vehicle-to-vehicle communications, as well as various efficiency standards for air conditioners, furnaces and power supplies.
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New capacity that complies with strict, new environmental standards are filling the supply lost as illegal steel producers, mainly induction furnaces, are being shut.
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"The use of cheaper but more polluting induction furnaces, while not being subjected to stringent carbon pricing mechanisms, also provides cost advantage," he added.
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The police cracked down on mercury producers in Sukabumi in 2017, shutting down three dozen furnaces and arresting about 100 people, including Mr. Cece.
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Monday's edition of the Federal Register contains new requirements for banks, efficiency rules for residential furnaces, and a smoking ban in public housing units.
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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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THE two giant furnaces at Port Talbot steelworks, Britain's biggest, were still hard at work this week, pouring out vast quantities of molten iron.
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Steelmakers that use electric-arc furnaces and mini-mills that only use scrap steel as raw material will also be pardoned from output limits.
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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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But as that line closes, about 100 jobs will be saved temporarily by the creation of a new night shift making high-efficiency furnaces.
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Gold purchased by the government is smelted in the nearby furnaces of Minerven, the state-run mining company, according to a high-ranking employee.
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According to the Energy Department, most homes in the United States are heated with either furnaces or boilers that burn natural gas or oil.
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To be sure, many Shanxi residents complained that the cost of heating their homes with gas furnaces or electric heaters was now much higher.
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The lack of demand has prompted Tata to reduce production although it is keeping its main furnaces running, an emailed statement said on Thursday.
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They are advocating a narrow regulation that allows utilities to reduce pollution at individual plants, like substituting fuel or improving the efficiency of furnaces.
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Long steel is mostly made with scrap in small electric-arc furnaces close to clients, cutting transportation costs in a competitive civil-construction market.
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In 2018, roughly 450,000 tons of garbage was fed into two furnaces and converted into electricity for 30,000 households and heating for 72,000 households.
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"As buildings erupted, thunderheads of pulverized brick, stone, plaster and mortar billowed from eaves and attics, roofs and chimneys, hearths and furnaces," Larson writes.
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Those that currently depend on oil sales, natural gas heating, or coal-fired furnaces can nonetheless start making progress right away through buying offsets.
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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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The filter battles odors like cigarette smoke, litter boxes, or overly-smelly furnaces to provide a fresher feel every time you walk into the room.
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When Gaffney's involvement proved temporary, Sebadoh pressed on as a live unit with drummer Bob D'Amico, who Loewenstein also worked with in The Fiery Furnaces.
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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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With soft artist brushes and, if needed, the occasional solvent, he patiently takes off years and years of soot and grime from coal-running furnaces.
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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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These new plants will each house bigger, more efficient furnaces with annual capacity of more than 262 million tonnes, compared to 550,218.67-343,234 tonnes previously.
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Switching more of these cars and furnaces to run on electricity would allow us to tap into low-carbon energy from renewables and nuclear plants.
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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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The two Southeast Asian nations - big steel importers with fast-growing economies - are ideal markets for these induction furnaces, or IFs, that produce cheaper steel.
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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 factory in question makes gas furnaces, and the workers will continue to do so under the deal that will keep the jobs in Indianapolis.
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Soon dozens of copycat furnaces began appearing in Sukabumi and on islands closer to the cinnabar mines, helping flood the black market with cheap mercury.
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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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In posters and speeches, female socialist icons were portrayed as "iron women" who labored heroically in front of steel furnaces while maintaining a harmonious family.
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What they do according to O*NET: Operate or tend furnaces to melt and refine metal before casting or to produce specified types of steel.
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Opening is Eleanor Friedberger, who has played with Loewenstein and Sebadoh's current drummer, Bob D'Amico, in her and her brother Matthew's band, the Fiery Furnaces.
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Millions of natural gas furnaces across the country could be replaced with energy-efficient heat pumps, for example, or harmful gas leaks could be plugged.
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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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Youngstown was a pillar of Ohio's once flourishing steel industry before U.S. Steel demolished its furnaces in the early 1980s, starting a long economic decline.
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That may still be something of an ask, given that one of the furnaces needs "a partial dig out" of "solidified metal", according to Nyrstar.
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But more broadly, Rhodium notes that modest improvements in the efficiency of furnaces aren't offsetting the effect of population growth and increasing demand for building energy.
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Beijing has said several times that signs of addition of new capacities are looming and the risk of bringing induction furnaces back to production still exist.
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China will begin carrying out checks in the first half of this year on closed induction furnaces to prevent them from resuming production, the ministry said.
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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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"It's much more expensive to fix big furnaces than the smaller ones," said a purchasing manager at a mid-sized mill in Hebei, China's steel hub.
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In 2011, demand for coking coal, a type used in furnaces for steel making, was high after flooding at Australian coal mines had limited the supply.
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"The tarmac – the asphalt on the roads – we use slag from the iron furnaces from steel manufacturers, stuff that may go into a landfill," he added.
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According to Henry Wallich, an economist, factories paid workers in kind, with light bulbs or shoes from their assembly lines, or coal intended for their furnaces.
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To the best of my knowledge nobody at this moment is using electric arc furnaces to make steel (for those sectors) on a mass production basis.
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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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MONESSEN, Pa. — Thirty years have passed, almost to the day, since the last blasts of the steel furnaces that were the reason for this city's existence.
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A business that makes graphite electrodes for steel furnaces - once SGL's major cash generator - was sold in 2017 after it came under pressure from Chinese rivals.
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" In Mr. Springsteen's song "Youngstown," the narrator, a laid-off mill worker, wishes for a future not in heaven but in "the fiery furnaces of hell.
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"This is strictly a business decision," a Carrier executive tells employees, describing how their 1,400 jobs making furnaces and heating equipment will be sent to Mexico.
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"It's pretty cool working there," she said, describing how she carefully puts together "tubular mixers," batches of rods that control the air flow in Carrier furnaces.
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"I'm ready for him to come," said Robin Maynard, a 24-year veteran of Carrier who builds high-efficiency furnaces and earns almost $24 an hour.
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At the end of shifts like that, Ms. Hargrove and the others who bothered to come in have only 800 furnaces to show for their efforts.
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Scores of old coal stoves have been dumped in a lot, removed by government decree in recent months in favor of cleaner-burning natural gas furnaces.
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What they do according to O*NET: Build or repair equipment such as furnaces, kilns, cupolas, boilers, converters, ladles, soaking pits, and ovens, using refractory materials.
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That requires a lot less energy than traditional heating systems — like boilers, furnaces and electric radiators — that work by warming up the air inside your house.
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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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Experts call it 'energy poverty' when families sink more than 10 percent of their annual incomes into faulty furnaces or energy-hogging window air-conditioning units.
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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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They set the sawmill on fire and destroyed two domed furnaces used to make charcoal, before setting out again in the helicopters for their next target.
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He also rewired and replumbed, updated the windows, put on new exterior siding and a new roof and added two furnaces and two air-conditioning units.
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Included in the €54 billion, or about $60 billion, spending package are incentives for buying electric cars, replacing oil-burning furnaces and better insulating private properties.
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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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So far, the Alliance has installed furnaces for 400 low-income households, including eight on the reservation, where the poverty rate is double that of the state.
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He raised a private army he planned to pay with counterfeit money and set up secret furnaces in the woods to cast his own guns and ammunition.
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As it battles smog, China has vowed to eliminate induction furnaces - a highly polluting type of plant that produces mostly rebar - by the end of this month.
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Eleanor Friedberger left Brooklyn two years ago for the Hudson Valley, and now she's recorded her third—and most mature—solo album since extinguishing the Fiery Furnaces.
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Some estimates put the shutdown of induction furnaces this year at 30 million to 50 million tonnes, about 4 percent to 7 percent of China's annual output.
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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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But that could change if more people start plugging in their cars rather than filling them up, and switching on industrial plants rather than stoking their 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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With two of its five furnaces closed, Ilva produced 5.8 million tonnes of steel last year, well below the 8 million tonnes it is authorized to produce.
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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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On Monday, Burritt said the combined job gains from reopening the two furnaces will actually be closer to 800 — an it's not just jobs at U.S. Steel.
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China shut down 115 million tonnes of steel capacity between 2016 and 2017, and closed 140 million tonnes of induction furnaces that use scrap metal to make steel.
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CODELCO: Chilean state miner Codelco halted the operations of three out of four furnaces at its Ventanas copper foundry on Monday after finding high levels of sulphur dioxide.
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The Paris-based company, bought by Astorg in 2013, makes calcium aluminate cements, used in specialized concretes and mortars and in refractory linings in furnaces, amongst other applications.
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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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The small generators (just 2m3) can also run off low-temperature industrial waste heat, turning waste heat from a ship's engines or a steel plant's furnaces into electricity.
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Natural gas provides essential energy for furnaces, water heaters and stoves and benefits nearly 68 million residential customers and 5.4 million commercial customers like restaurants, stores and schools.
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Pretty nuts to think it was 2116 years ago that Eleanor Friedberger and her brother formed The Fiery Furnaces, going on to release eight albums in nine years!
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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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Many coal stoves were removed before new furnaces were installed, leaving tens of thousands of people shivering without heat when winter's first cold snap arrived earlier than normal.
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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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Born as a state-controlled company, in the 1960s its steel-making furnaces drew workers from the surrounding countryside and became a reliable vote-getter for southern politicians.
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Its so-called "GreenSteel" programme will partly focus on building more electric arc furnaces (EAF), which use less energy and are more efficient since they recycle scrap steel.
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Among the highlights for this benefit show: the garage-punk band Reigning Sound, Eleanor Friedberger of the art-pop outfit Fiery Furnaces, and the singer-songwriter Gary Lucas.
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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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Most American homes are heated by furnaces or boilers, according to the Energy Department, and poorly maintained systems can burn more oil or natural gas than is necessary.
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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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China's environmental crackdown, the supply-side reform and the closure of lower-end induction furnaces have pushed steel rebar prices up by about 38 percent in the past year.
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Airxcel makes air conditioners, heat pumps, cooking appliances, furnaces, powered vents and water heaters for use in recreation vehicles, schools, multi-family housing, telecommunication enclosures and other industrial applications.
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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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In addition to the materials required to create the base of the sculpture, there is the need for dryers and casting furnaces, as well as molding and welding materials.
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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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Steel mills are currently making a profit of up to 26.9168 yuan ($115.74) a tonne producing rebar, the highest since 2011, spurring them to fire up furnaces, analysts said.
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Besides surging iron ore prices that have pressured steel firms this year, analysts also noted that output from electric arc furnaces has been affected by higher scrap steel prices.
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And until the announcement of the eventual shutdown, most of them said they had loved working for Carrier, assembling furnaces and fan coils, hard as the work could be.
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High-efficiency furnace production is not set to end until mid- to late 2018, while the final line to close, mid-efficiency furnaces, won't he shuttered until early 2019.
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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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Rather than relying on furnaces and traditional AC systems, Dandelion Air is a geothermal system that uses the ground's energy via plastic pipes and a pump in the home.
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Among other measures, coke production furnaces in the seven cities will be required to extend their production period to 36 hours from for a full six months, from Oct.
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With different tweaks and refinements, the process could be adapted for diesel, gasoline, jet fuel — or it could be piped directly to local neighborhoods as fuel for home 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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Likewise, it infuriated some supporters by letting steel giant ArcelorMittal buy Italy's troubled Ilva steelmaker rather than follow through on promises to shut down the firm's heavily polluting Puglia furnaces.
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Scientists have long cautioned that, as the planet warms—it is roughly 1°C hotter today than before the industrial age's first furnaces were lit—weather patterns will go berserk.
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The closure of cheaper but more polluting induction furnaces in June had pushed many Chinese to move toward EAFs, but the limited supply of graphite electrode has stalled those plans.
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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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China has been eliminating excess and outdated steel capacity, including more than 100 million tonnes of illegal induction furnaces in 2017, in a bid to pare its bloated steel sector.
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The Port Talbot plant, which dominates the small coastal town with its giant furnaces, still employs about 4,000 people, and Tata is one of the biggest private companies in Wales.
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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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In Tangshan, a major steel-producing city in China's Hebei province, furnaces were running at 84 percent of capacity last week, versus around 153 percent in August, the data shows.
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Imagine traffic being halted, subway trains going berserk, furnaces and cooling systems firing out of control, or worse yet, a nuclear power plant melting down -- all due to a cyberattack.
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Some steel analysts believe the record output is a result of the production from the environmentally compliant mills showing up in government data whereas the illegal induction furnaces did not.
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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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Modern ideas of probability and risk, of ethics and morality, and of appropriate models of commercial and even political organization — all were forged in the furnaces of finance, Goetzmann argues.
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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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Chronic power shortages severely dented Pakistan's economy earlier in the decade, and industry turned to burning wood, rubber, and even used shoes to keep its furnaces, boilers and generators running.
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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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"I can see it now," she says, gazing upon the crematorium where the corpses of Jews from across Europe who were murdered in gas chambers were later burned in furnaces.
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And tougher standards for furnaces alone could reduce carbon dioxide pollution by nearly 85 million metric tons by 2050, equivalent to the annual emissions from 22 coal-fired power plants.
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Carbon monoxide "is found in fumes produced any time you burn fuel in cars or trucks, small engines, stoves, lanterns, grills, fireplaces, gas ranges, or furnaces," according to the CDC.
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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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However, for the many existing homes currently heated with natural gas, electrification will increase costs at today's prices, compared to replacing gas furnaces and water heaters with new gas devices.
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China will encourage companies to build more electric furnaces to process scrap and urge companies to move production out of sensitive regions, including northern Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province, it added.
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The union's secretary general, Simon Diaz, said the strike started at 7:30 (12:30 GMT) and has curbed production as it forced some furnaces at the smelter to stop operating.
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Found on Part 2 of Form 5695, this credit requires adhering to certain spending limits, such as $150 for high-efficiency furnaces and boilers and $200 for replacement windows, says Bankrate.com.
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Second, there's the residue flushed out of the bottom of furnaces and incinerators at coal plants, called bottom ash, which is often combined with water and stored in ponds on-site.
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It has vowed an 80 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; in order to do that, it's going to have to replace all the natural gas furnaces heating homes.
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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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This dynamic follows structural changes in the vast Chinese steel sector, including the closure of older, inefficient furnaces, the consolidation of steel makers and policy-driven moves to reduce air pollution.
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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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Nor could Mr. Trump, a billionaire businessman, force steel makers to buy coal from Appalachia to heat furnaces in Asia, Europe and North America that have been idled by weak demand.
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Air conditioners: The Energy Department is finalizing new energy conservation standards for small, large, and very large air-cooled commercial package air conditioning and heating equipment and commercial warm air furnaces.
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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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The heat didn't come on in Ms. Mathis's apartment the following year either, and a solution that involved installing furnaces in the rent-stabilized apartments didn't pass muster with city inspectors.
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If trade policies have eaten away at steel industry jobs, so have technological advances like Nucor's electric arc furnaces, which recycle existing iron and steel instead of making it from scratch.
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The authorities blame the acrid air on pollution, most of it from car exhaust and wood-burning furnaces, and a layer of warm, stagnant air that has trapped the toxic particles.
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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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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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Artists built and were working in smaller furnaces where they could be more collaborative with each other, more innovative in the moment, and experiment with shapes and functions of the glass itself.
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FURNACES STAY DARK Ferocious gas-on-coal competition has been intensified by the warmer-than-normal weather over the most populated areas of the country from late November and especially since Christmas.
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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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Friedberger's latest album is called New View, and it's the third she's released since the dissolution of The Fiery Furnaces, the indie rock band she anchored alongside brother Matthew throughout the '00s.
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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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Alstom's Belfort announcement rekindles bad memories for Hollande of the Florange steel furnaces, which closed soon after he took office in 2012 and left many left-wing voters disillusioned by his leadership.
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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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Equally frightening was "La Fabbrica Illuminata" (1964), a horror show of rage against injustice that pitches a solo soprano (Stacey Mastrian, inspired) against recordings of roaring furnaces, crunching assembly lines, even mice.
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The business, which once was SGL's biggest profit driver, is losing money because cheap blast furnace steel from China is taking global market share from operators of electric arc furnaces outside China.
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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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It is only a short drive from the mines to the huge furnaces in Tornio, where the ore is melted with other ingredients to create ferrochrome, a crucial ingredient in stainless steel.
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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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Supporters said the mandates handed down would likely require a vast work force to weatherize homes, swap out furnaces and install solar panels, and build wind farms and other clean energy infrastructure.
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But those service jobs pay well below the $20 to $25 an hour that veteran Carrier employees — with only a high school diploma — can earn building furnaces and fan coils in Indianapolis.
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The toxic gas kills hundreds of people each year, says the Centers for Disease Control, which recommends installing battery-operated alarms near sleeping areas, as well as having regular inspections of furnaces.
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Martina Kadlecova, the concierge manager for lighting, said it is known as the "hot shop" because the mix of crystal ingredients is melted in furnaces for 24 hours before it is worked.
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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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But the spectacle's narrative — the "Why" — was forged in the nonstop furnaces of tabloid programs like Inside Edition, Extra, and Hard Copy, the now-defunct news program given a spotlight in I, Tonya.
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In Indonesia, after China banned IFs, the furnaces were imported by factories to reduce steelmaking costs at the expense of safety, said Silmy Karim, chief executive of top Indonesian steelmaker Krakatau Steel (KRAS.JK).
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Impala Platinum reduces its usage of power-intensive equipment, including furnaces, during national peak usage times when residential consumers are just waking up or have just returned from work, spokesman Johan Theron said.
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SGL has been seeking a buyer for the business, which has been losing money because cheap blast furnace steel from China is taking global market share from operators of electric arc furnaces elsewhere.
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It said Petromonagas, a joint venture with Russia's Rosneft, would undergo "cleaning and repair" since its furnaces were blocked by waste products, and that Petrosanfelix, fully owned by PDVSA, was unlikely to restart.
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Although it is true that Friedberger is perhaps "most famous for being one half of the indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces," her best work is definitely happening as a solo artist, now.
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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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Eleanor Friedberger spent the first decade of the new millennium singing absurdly clever lyrics as one half of the Fiery Furnaces, the cult-favorite indie-rock duo she fronted alongside her brother, Matthew.
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Chairman Mao decreed that China should produce more steel: as a result, much of the country's existing stocks of the metal were melted down in backyard furnaces which produced poor quality pig iron.
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"We are announcing today that Carrier will continue to manufacture gas furnaces in Indianapolis, in addition to retaining engineering and headquarters staff, preserving more than 1,85033 jobs," the company said in a statement.
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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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Oxbow has also lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency to relax pollution controls and over a planned study of the health impact of pet coke, a byproduct of oil refining used in industrial furnaces.
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It's true that SCL doesn't offer rebates for air-source heat pumps, but it's not true that they offer rebates for natgas furnaces — those rebates came through Puget Sound Energy, my gas utility.
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As domestic scrap prices ST-SCCNDHV-MB tumbled 20 percent in May from this year's peak, mills increased scrap use in these furnaces to 20 percent from 8 percent, Chinese traders and mills said.
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Air conditioners, refrigerators, furnaces and ovens Mexico exported $8.4 billion worth of those appliances to the United States last year, which amounted to 44% of American imports in that sector, according to Goldman Sachs.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will reduce the amount of coal burned directly in industrial furnaces and residential heating systems in order to tackle a major source of smog, the country's energy regulator said on Wednesday.
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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 country has a heavily industrialized north, poorly maintained private furnaces, growing traffic congestion, widespread use of diesel fuel and years of neglectful spending on infrastructure for freight trains and public transportation, environmentalists say.
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It's rare for Chinese mills to relocate actual steel-making equipment to other countries, apart from those who sneaked out banned small-scale induction furnaces after Beijing's crackdown on low-grade steel in 2017.
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More people would be more comfortable — improving their health and productivity— if furnaces and air conditioners could respond in real time to how building occupants were feeling, including how they change through the day.
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China this year closed most of its outdated and in many cases illegal induction furnaces, a category not previously captured in official demand statistics, hence the one-off effect on nominal versus underlying demand.
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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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China this year closed most of its outdated and in many cases illegal induction furnaces, a category not previously captured in official demand statistics, hence the one off effect on nominal versus underlying demand.
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But rather than being turned into new consumer goods like fleece jackets and sneakers, much of the waste is unusable for recycling and is instead thrown into the furnaces that fuel Tropodo's tofu boilers.
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From its founding in 1906 until the last of its furnaces closed in 1995, the Falck steel mill produced the raw materials to fuel the growth of the Lombardy region as Italy's industrial superpower.
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Gaurav Dalmia, the chairman of a family-controlled conglomerate that makes cement as well as heat-resistant tiles for steel furnaces, said big business was making a calculation in these last days of voting.
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There are historically accurate new wood windows with a Teflon coating, wide-plank pine floors milled by a local craftsman, reproduction wrought-iron hardware and two furnaces (one for each floor of the house).
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As domestic scrap prices ST-SCCNDHV-MB tumbled 22 percent in May from this year's peak, mills increased scrap use in these furnaces to 27 percent from 8 percent, Chinese traders and mills said.
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Obviously, in the real world, Colorado can't just turn a dial and switch its vehicle fleet to EVs, its residential furnaces to heat pumps, and its natural gas power plants to solar and wind.
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Today, as much of the country braces for the historic "bomb cyclone" to pass, many are relying on their furnaces, water heaters, stovetops and electrical outlets working without a hitch, to weather the storm.
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Ms. Friedberger, who shared singing and songwriting with her brother, Matthew, in Fiery Furnaces in the early 2000s, began releasing solo albums in 2011, with lean, storytelling songs steeped in 20133s and 1970s rock.
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Much transportation can be electrified, and all those furnaces can theoretically be replaced with electric alternatives like heat pumps, but doing all that in the time remaining to decarbonize is a truly monumental task.
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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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More than 1.83 Chinese steel companies pledged in 2018 to shut old capacity and build new furnaces with a combined yearly capacity of 60.29 million tonnes, according to a Reuters analysis of official industry data.
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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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He had wanted to stage "Europa Bombardata" in an area of the church that had been used as a pottery workshop during the war; the setting was to be likened to the furnaces of Buchenwald.
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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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And in an hour and a quarter the amount of sunlight that threads through the clouds to the Earth's surface could power all the world's electricity, vehicles, boilers, furnaces and cooking stoves for a year.
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"We plan to rapidly increase our capabilities regarding product variation, opening new (glass) furnaces ... We will be more efficient by expanding our product range," Ahmet Kirman told Reuters in an interview in Istanbul on Monday.
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His spellbinding images are packed with machinery and infrastructure so complex it seems alive, from knitting machines with enumerable arms to solar furnaces that look like giant compound eyes—more Roald Dahl than Charles Dickens.
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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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Carrier workers now question why their factory, which will continue making furnaces after fan coil operations move to Monterrey, was singled out by Trump when hundreds of steelworkers in Indiana are in a similar predicament.
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Until fairly recently, the conventional wisdom was that highly efficient natural gas furnaces were the environmentally preferable option, given that electrical appliances often draw on coal-heavy grid power (and fuel oil is just filthy).
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Linton Crystal Technologies, a firm based in Rochester, makes specialized furnaces used to grow silicon tubes, which are cut into wafers for semiconductors and solar panels that are sold to customers all over the world.
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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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Across eastern India, which sits on the country's largest coal reserves, this ragtag army sets out at dusk to feed the furnaces, fill the railway wagons, and fuel the power stations that get India's economy moving.
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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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Tangshan has ordered steel mills in the city to reduce output of their sintering machine and shaft furnaces by half, while coke plants will have to extend their production period in order to reduce toxic emissions.
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One industry source, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of a lack of authorization to speak publicly, said the blockages of Petromonagas' furnaces was likely to keep the upgrader out of commission for 20 days.
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Mr. Roell, who earns about $55,000 a year with overtime as a team leader making furnaces, has few illusions about the gulf separating him from Mr. Trump, or the global headwinds that American factory workers face.
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Mills will also be required to shut all sintering machines, facilities that process raw iron ore before being smelted into steel, and shaft furnaces that have failed to meet ultra-low emission standards, the document said.
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Furdygiel is one of just a few charcoal burners still operating in the Bieszczady mountain range of southeastern Poland, where he regularly piles wood into some four furnaces, known as 'retorts', to produce the black carbon.
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In a (1984) essay titled "Bosch's St. Anthony Triptych — An Apothecary's Apotheosis," the author finds a common ingredient in medieval medicine used to treat ergot — mandrake root — and the distillation furnaces used to make that medicine.
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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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Alphonso David, the counsel to Mr. Cuomo, said that while the aggressive goals might lead to measures to curb gas-powered cars or inefficient furnaces, there was no knowing how exactly the state would get there.
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It has already said it plans to close one of its two furnaces at Kure, western Japan, by around March 2024 as well as another at its Yawata Works in Kokura, Kyushu island, by March 2021.
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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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"I'm from St. Louis and Budweiser," he writes in "The End of Summer," and "from the Seidel Coal and Coke Company," which supplied fuel for Budweiser's furnaces: I remember the brick alleys behind the massive houses.
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Carrier workers now also question why their factory, which will continue making furnaces after fan coil operations move to Monterrey, was singled out by Trump when hundreds of steelworkers in Indiana are in a similar predicament.
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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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The deal would likely keep a workforce in the U.S. The company has made it clear that in order to remain competitive with other manufacturers of furnaces and air conditioners, it needs to lower its labor costs.
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The company said its damaged steam cracker, out of service since a fire in August 13, would be restarted at eight out of 10 furnaces at the end of next month and at full capacity in October.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian manufacturers of graphite electrodes used in electric arc furnaces are booming on the back of China's pollution crackdown, but soaring prices have set the companies on a collision course with government and steelmakers.
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The government and local authorities will spend 750 million zlotys ($220 million) to help poorer households make their homes warmer and want to offer subsidies to households to buy more eco-friendly furnaces, the environment minister said.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy proposed new energy conservation standards for household furnaces in September, but is now reopening the comment period to give the public more time to consider the changes.
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From the 21910s to the 21863s, hundreds of locals worked 953-hour shifts at the Dorflingers' glass factory, where they shaped products with molds and acid and stoked furnaces, sending plumes of smoke from brick chimney stacks.
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Cars are buried under mountains of snow, and lethally low temperatures are forcing cities across the Northeast and Midwest to open emergency "warming centers" for homeless residents and people whose furnaces are no match for the cold.
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United States Steel, which said it was restarting idled furnaces around the country in response to the tariffs, has filed objections against a slew of companies seeking exclusions, sometimes opposing dozens of requests from the same source.
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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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Imagine how many Americans could get a mortgage and buy a home if millions of Americans no longer had a criminal record (and imagine how many new Carrier furnaces and air conditioners would be sold and installed).
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Waste oil has been found to damage furnaces, and environmentalists argue that burning it in home heating systems increases pollution that lingers over the surrounding areas, contributing to asthma, heart disease and other ailments in poor neighborhoods.
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Achieving the ambitious goal could require New York state to take drastic steps including eliminating gasoline-powered automobiles and oil-burning furnaces, as well as restoring wetlands or planting trees to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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The blog also has several images of the Great Leap Forward, ranging from iconic backyard furnaces and public canteens to practices much less prominent in public memory, such as backyard furnaces on parade in Tiananmen, famine refugees in Hong Kong, ceremonies marking an industrial advancement, cultural performances, diplomatic visits, artists at work, a British newsreel about "weird" food shortages, backyard furnace art, Mao taking a swim at the conference where he overrode critics of the Great Leap or this C.I.A. film, which overall gives a fairly positive depiction.
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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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Elton John, The Pet Shop Boys, Minor Threat, Guided By Voices, indie pop band Fiery Furnaces, Tears for Fears, Marilyn Manson, Tyler the Creator, Tori Amos and Dead Milkmen have used derogatory terminology in lyrics describing gay people.
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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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Under the deal, Monterrey-based Vitro will acquire four plants with a total of five furnaces in the United States, a flat glass investigation unit and four glass processing centers in Canada, the company said in a statement.
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The weekly utilization rate at steel mills across the country continued to increase this week, climbing by 0.14 percentage points to 67.82 percent as of Friday, Mysteel data showed, with some big furnaces resuming operations after regular maintenance.
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Sinosteel president Andong Liu said the Chinese firm planned to build three additional furnaces at its majority-owned Zimasco business, which would raise ferrochrome output by 120,000 tonnes over the next five years to 300,000 tonnes per year.
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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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Jefferies said the sale to Liberty reduces market concerns that the ArcelorMittal furnaces would fall piecemeal into the hands of several smaller players, which could weigh on steel prices by increasing the number of competitors in the market.
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We love fiery ordeals where our oral cavities turn into raging furnaces, tongues and throats scalded and raw, lips throbbing, heads pounding, hearts racing, and noses and eyes streaming as our brain tries to extinguish the blistering heat.
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Despite the closure of older and less efficient furnaces, and the likelihood this will continue in the coming years, China still has ample spare capacity, and is able to make more than 1 billion tonnes of steel annually.
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The more flexible electric-powered mills, which can require less than half as much manpower, will not replace coal-fired furnaces, so no jobs are under threat for now, Neil Barrell, GFG global chief operating officer, told Reuters.
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The Nucor plant will employ around 250 people and will use energy produced by Evergy, including from a new wind farm, to power electric arc furnaces that will melt scrapped steel and turn it into new, recycled steel.
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That heat pumps beat natural gas in all these cases is good news, and needs to be more widely known, but it doesn't really get at most of those millions of natural gas furnaces already installed and running.
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The recent abundance of scrap in China followed Beijing's decision to shut mills churning out low-quality steel from induction furnaces - typically big users of scrap - as part of its drive against pollution and a glut in steel supply.
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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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The low-grade steel produced in small low-tech furnaces, often using recycled material, has been identified as not only as a source of pollution but also a major safety hazard because the steel products are easy to break.
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It aims to close 50 million tonnes this year, and has also vowed by the end of June to completely eliminate low-grade steel furnaces, responsible for as much as 100 million tonnes of illegal substandard production every year.
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MANILA (Reuters) - China banned induction furnaces last year in a crackdown on polluting producers of low-quality steel, but these machines have made their way to parts of Southeast Asia, hitting domestic steelmakers and fueling safety and environmental concerns.
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The Philippines and Indonesia have seen an influx of these furnaces since China prohibited their use for steelmaking in June 2017, eliminating 140 million tonnes of capacity - or just over the combined output of the United States and Germany.
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It's mainly low-quality furnaces that are being targeted for closure by Chinese authorities as part of plans to shut at least 50 million tonnes of capacity this year, which follows on from 65 million tonnes idled last year.
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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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But even so, Liberty House would still need some help from the government to reduce the labour, energy and environmental costs of the plant, in particular by removing the carbon taxes from the electricity his arc furnaces would use.
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The experts estimated casualties at as high as several million, a number which they said could be significantly reduced if mass cremation furnaces were built in order to avert a sanitary crisis brought on by masses of dead bodies.
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