The upcoming maintenance outage at AK Steel’s Ashland Works blast furnace will not impact production at the Middletown Works blast furnace, according to AK Steel spokesman Mike Wallner. “It’s ...

AK Steel’s blast furnace in Ashland, Ky., which already unexpectedly shut down once this year due to some kind of malfunction in February, has shut down again. “AK Steel recently experienced an ...

President Jeff Parks saw the most redevelopment potential in the iron foundry or the No. 2 machine shop until a fateful trip in 2002 to Germany. There Parks saw for the first time a series of former ...

One of AK Steel Holding Corp.’s three blast furnaces is back to full production capacity after it was shut down for repairs, the company said on Dec. 4. Fixes at Ashland Works in Kentucky lasted about ...

Nippon Steel Corp. said Tuesday its wholly owned subsidiary, United States Steel Corp., will invest $350 million to revamp ...

For those wondering if the lights on the former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces at SteelStacks will be back in time for Musikfest, there’s good news. While they won’t be back at 100%, most of the ...

Nippon Steel, the parent company of U.S. Steel, is moving forward with its plans to renovate a giant coal-fueled furnace in Gary, Indiana. The Japan-based steel manufacturer, which acquired U.S. Steel ...

Since Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem held its grand opening in June 2009, the casino has been illuminating the former Bethlehem Steel Corp. blast furnaces. The hulking furnaces are awash in blue for ...

US Steel Corp. is idling an Illinois blast furnace that Donald Trump visited as part of his self-proclaimed “rescue” of the American steel industry five years ago, as it moves to balance production ...

Mumbia, India-based JSW Steel Ltd. and Tokyo-based JFE Steel Corp. have commenced a pilot demonstration of cloud-based Cyber Physical System (CPS) technologies for blast furnace operations at JSW ...

Into the Armco Steel Corp. plant at Houston this week rolled three carloads of iron smelted by a radical new process. Developed by a Hungarian-born inventor, Julius Madaras, and financed by Oilman ...