While sustainability has become a catchword in the global iron and steel industry, manufacturers face a two-pronged challenge of ensuring continued supply of high quality raw materials and reducing their carbon footprints. One manufacturer in Odisha (eastern state of India) faced rising
The latest technology developed at Tata Steel Europe’s Ijmuiden site in the Netherlands promises to reduce carbon emissions like never before. Among some of the giant experimental strides that the global iron and steel industry has taken in recent times to reduce
Flexibility in raw materials selection and significantly low operational costs add to the new technology’s commercial prospects Among the few iron making processes that have emerged as an alternative to the BF route, the Finexprocess – developed by steel behemoth POSCO in
Leapfrog Project In a groundbreaking initiative to ensure optimal energy efficiency in steel production, reduce carbon emissions, and provide a fillip to the global circular economy, steel behemoth Arcelor Mittal is halfway through the construction of new premises at its site in
China commissions first commercial HIsmelt plant in Shandong province, which can produce steel using low grade Iron ore fines and non coking coal. Is it the great leap forward in iron making? When China first implemented liberal market reforms it produced just
The recently commissioned ferrochrome plant of Tata Steel at Gopalpur Industrial Park in Odisha has commenced production. The novelty of the plant is that chromite briquettes are used for making ferrochrome which are, in turn, produced at the briquetting plant close by.
China is the largest buyer of the seaborne traded manganese ore. It consumes around 80% of the total traded product. Since, most of the manganese ore produced worldwide goes to China, it is important to watch this market closely. A sneak peek
The straight grate pellet plant will be installed at JSW Steel Ltd’s Vijayanagar steelworks which will be supplied by Metso. Finnish industrial machinery company Metso has bagged an eyebrow-raising order to deliver a straight grate pellet plant for JSW Steel Ltd’s Vijayanagar
India is one of the major exporters of ferroalloys to Iran and, in turn, sources crude oil from the Islamic Republic. Now, with the cloud of sanctions hovering over bilateral trade between India and Iran, the safest route would be to switch
Iron Briquettes being made from EAF dust, after extracting Zinc Rising scrap consumption in China is