Improvements in Iron Processing and the Development of the Blast Furnace
Overview
The development of more efficient means for producing and working with iron, and the production of high-grade iron, is...
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Blast Furnace
Furnaces have been used in the metal-smelting process for thousands of years. The walls of a furnace trap heat to achieve a temperature great enough to melt metal. For millennia, people ...
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Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. will increase the supply of steel
slabs to Nippon Steel Corp. and Kobe Steel Ltd. for production of
high-grade sheet products as part of efforts to strengthen t...
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Duisburg, Germany (dpa) - A new blast furnace is rising up over
the Ruhr city of Duisburg for the first time in years.
Demand from China for high-quality steel ...
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Everyone knew Wheeling Pittsburgh Corp. was in trouble as it sat in the middle of a takeover battle last fall, deep in debt and dangerously low on cash and credit.But only after winning the proxy f...
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Higher metal prices and robust sales in Europe helped United States Steel Corp. more than double its fourth-quarter profit, but the steel maker warned of a downturn in coming months.The sharp incre...
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(EDS: ADDING DETAILS)
Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. said Wednesday that the Japanese
steelmaker and its French partner Vallourec have agreed to set up a
joint venture in Brazil to produce h...
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Gov't, ruling camp set 47.3 tril. yen cap for FY 2008 budget
TOKYO - The government and the ruling coalition agreed Wednesday
to put a 47.3 trillion yen cap on core policy-relate...
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Usiminas to spend 1 tril. yen to boost capacity: Nippon Steel
TOKYO - Usiminas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais S.A., a Brazilian
steelmaker affiliated with Nippon Steel Corp., will ...
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Berlin (dpa) - Germany is to rip down one of the ugliest strips of
a western steel town and plant it with grass and trees in a radical
and expensive greening project.
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The warnings in Ukraine verged on the apocalyptic when Russia sharply raised prices for natural gas a year ago. Many feared factories would close, leading to mass layoffs and grinding industry to a...
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(EDS: INCORPORATING EARLIER STORIES HEADLINED 'SUMITOMO METAL,
VALLOUREC AGREE TO SET UP JOINT VENTURE IN BRAZIL' AND 'SUMITOMO
METAL, SUMITOMO CORP. TO INVEST IN VALLOUREC CHINA BUSINESS')
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Improvements in Iron Processing and the Development of the Blast Furnace
Blast Furnace
S'tomo Metal to boost steel slab supply to Nippon Steel, Kobe Steel
