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Mesabi Metallics Creates a Fully Integrated American Steel Company, Uniting Minnesota Mine and Iowa Steel Complex

Mesabi Metallics/US announced in September an USD 18 billion investment to build a fully integrated steel company, uniting its iron ore mine on Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range with a new...

Tenova to Supply Second Consteel® EAF to Nippon Steel’s Hirohata Plant

Tenova/IT, a leading developer and provider of sustainable solutions for the metals and mining industries, has been awarded a contract by Nippon Steel Corporation through Daido Steel Co., Ltd. as...

Revolutionizing No-cement Castables: Discover the SECAR® Dry Series

In the demanding world of high-temperature refractories, optimizing performance while managing complexity is a constant challenge. Imerys is proud to introduce the SECAR® Dry series: an advanced, all-in-one hydraulic binder...

Energy for High-Temperature Processes: Efficiency Meets Decarbonization

Decarbonizing energy-intensive processes is one of the major challenges facing high-temperature industries. At the same time, companies need to keep operating costs under control. Switching from fossil fuels to electricity,...

Kiln Technology in Transition: Bringing Materials and Systems Together

High-temperature processes face a complex challenge: emissions need to be reduced while maintaining process reliability, product quality and economic viability. Plant operators are therefore looking at both the modernization of...

Closing Material Loops: New Opportunities for the Refractories Industry

Resource and material efficiency are becoming increasingly important in high-temperature industries. Raw material prices, environmental requirements and the need to reduce CO₂ emissions are increasing the pressure to keep valuable...

U. S. Steel Completes USD 350 Million Gary Works Blast Furnace #14 Reline, Returns Furnace to Service

U. S. Steel announced in September the successful return to service of Blast Furnace #14 at Gary Works following completion of a USD 350 million reline project. The project required...

Holcim Launches Calcined Clay Line in the Czech Republic to Scale its Sustainable Offering

Holcim/CH has launched a new calcined clay production line at its Čížkovice plant, the first of its kind in the Czech Republic. The facility will enable the supply of 580...

China Mining Joint Venture Guozheng and Strategic Refocus

The Refratechnik Group/DE has officially finalized an agreement to sell the stake in the mining and processing operations in Guozheng, China. Refratechnik’s entry into the Chinese mining and raw material...

Tronox Namakwa Sands Restarts Furnace as Global Zircon Demand Grows

The restarting of Tronox Holdings’s furnace and the plans to bring production back online at its Namakwa Sands mine in Saldanha, South Africa, comes as long-term demand for zircon strengthens....

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