Britain’s government on Monday raced to secure raw materials to keep the country’s last steelmaking blast furnaces running after passing emergency legislation to take control of British Steel. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government swooped in on Saturday to prevent the closure of British Steel’s main plant in northern Scunthorpe after its Chinese owners Jingye halted…
LONDON — The U.K. government on Friday called an emergency weekend Parliament session to pass legislation aimed at saving the country’s last factory that makes steel directly from raw materials, a move widely called for since U.S. President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said lawmakers are being asked to return on…
After more than a decade of intensive research in China, a groundbreaking new ironmaking technology is poised to revolutionise the global steel manufacturing industry. The new method involves injecting finely ground iron ore powder into an extremely hot furnace, triggering an “explosive chemical reaction”, according to the engineers involved in the project. The result is…