Blast furnaces are the heart of the steel industry, transforming raw materials into molten iron, which is then converted into steel. This process ...

The UK Parliament passed legislation to take control of British Steel, preventing the shutdown of blast furnaces and securing ...

The UK government has taken control of British Steel's plant in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, to prevent it from closing.

Relieved steelworkers at Britain’s last blast furnaces have had the threat of ... ‘This should be just the first step to begin the process of nationalisation ‘The government now needs ...

The government has offered to buy the coking coal that is essential to keep steel production going at British Steel in ...

In March, British Steel’s Chinese owners announced plans to shut down its Scunthorpe furnaces and cut jobs. British Steel has ...

British Steel's blast furnaces are set to continue running with ... the capability to produce so-called virgin steel, due to the process of restarting them being extremely difficult and costly.

While it is possible to turn blast furnaces off and on again, Sky News science correspondent Thomas Moore explains it is a "dangerous and expensive process". First of all, there is no switch that ...

British Steel halts plans for up to 2,700 redundancies at its Scunthorpe plant after emergency government intervention ...