When Charles M. Atkins died on Sept. 3, 1889, the Pottsville Republican called him one of the city’s most respected citizens. “He was a businessman of large experience and far reaching influence,” ...

Researchers have developed a new process to reduce CO2 emission of worldwide steel production by several hundred million tons per year. It is based on modernizing blast furnace technology with ...

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They called it Furnace Island, and with good reason. The narrow tract along Route 61, across from the former Mady Car Wash, was home to iron furnaces beginning in the early 1800s. Indeed, even before ...

Iron and steel production is among the largest industrial sources of carbon dioxide, accounting for around 7–9 per cent of global emissions. Biomass offers a renewable pathway to replace fossil carbon ...

The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that furnace is the charcoal fire of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new iron making technology developed in China is set to significantly impact the global steel industry. Developed after more ...