Before any work can start on constructing one of the world’s largest electric arc furnaces at Port Talbot, the existing steel plant building – in which it is to be located – is being stripped back to a shell as the site prepares for the next generation of steelmaking.

SMS group has successfully executed a partial hearth repair of blast furnace BF4 at Třinecké Železárny in the Czech Republic, in record time.

Jindal Steel has marked a major milestone in India’s steelmaking industry by blowing in a 5mtpa blast furnace.