The basic process for making steel hasn’t changed a whole lot in the past few hundred years. Into the top of a big, lava lamp-shaped blast furnace goes iron ore and coking coal, and out comes waste ...

Even though construction on the Apple Grove Nucor Corporation steel mill isn’t quite finished, they’re already getting ...

With more than $350 million in venture funding and a new factory in Brazil, Boston Metal looks to scale up production of its green method for making steel. If steel were a country, it would be the ...

Metallurgy explains how to predict the properties, behavior and internal structure of metal so that we can use it to its maximum capabilities. One of the most important properties of metal is its ...

Because the current reactor can only make about a ton or two of material per month, the company plans to build an even larger demonstration plant set to come online in 2026 and begin operations a year ...

An activity centre for babies and toddlers, an Indian restaurant, an indoor golf centre – and a mini experimental steel plant. These businesses are among those that make up a small retail and ...

The Swedish startup Stegra has raised close to $7 billion to produce zero-emissions steel using green hydrogen starting in 2026. As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of it were being produced ...

Outside the small Swedish city of Boden, surrounded by a forest, a massive green steel plant is under construction. By the end of next year, if all goes as planned, the factory will begin making steel ...

Boston Metal completed its first run of an industrial reactor that uses electricity to make steel. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in ...

Concrete and steel production are major sources of CO2 emissions, but a new solution from Cambridge could recycle both at the same time. Throwing old concrete into steel-processing furnaces not only ...

Most enterprises run into the ‘Steel Curtain’ when they try to decarbonize steel. But Electra sees a way around the impenetrable fortress — a tribute to the 1970s all-star Pittsburgh Steeler defense.

Efforts to decarbonize the steel industry are unfolding against a backdrop of familiar challenges and shifting global priorities. While ...