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...Likewise British Steel said last November that it would also close its two blast furnaces and instead build two electric arc furnaces, including one at its Teesside site, meaning up to 2,000 job cuts....
...Tata on Thursday said the first blast furnace would close at the end of June, followed by the second furnace by the end of September. A voluntary redundancy process will be launched next month....
...The Indian steelmaker intends to replace its traditional blast furnaces with an electric arc furnace, a lower-carbon production method that requires a much smaller workforce....
...India’s Tata Steel will close the last two blast furnaces at the UK’s largest steelworks in Wales as part of a sweeping restructuring, cutting up to 2,800 jobs....
...with a less carbon-intensive, electric arc furnace on the site....
...Tata’s decision follows a similar move by British Steel, which last year said it would close its two remaining blast furnaces and build two electric arc furnaces....
...Unlike blast furnaces, which use coke to produce iron from ore, electric arc furnaces melt down scrap and recycled steel....
...The company last year delayed plans to reline its blast furnace, extending the life of that equipment....
...That means that, even post-sale, BHP will be overwhelmingly exposed to “blast furnace” commodities....
...This item has been amended since publication to correct an error in the description of how a blast furnace works...
...The loss of the Port Talbot blast furnaces would leave two remaining in the UK, both belonging to British Steel....
...Tata Steel plans to replace the last two blast furnaces at Britain’s largest steelworks in Port Talbot with electric arc furnaces that melt down scrap to make steel....
...Their fear is that Nippon will close the ageing blast furnaces where most of them work. After years of closures, only five of these remain open....
...This compares with a traditional blast furnace that can only use up to a maximum of 30 per cent of scrap....
...furnaces....
...This would involve closing Tata’s last two remaining blast furnaces, which are both at Port Talbot, and replacing them with an electric arc furnace, which is less labour-intensive....
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...That might add €200 to the cost of each metric tonne of steel produced in blast furnaces — almost 30 per cent of today’s price....
...The Welsh government and unions said London should have provided additional funding, however, to allow one blast furnace to stay open for longer....
...So this is number 4 furnace. It's one of the two operating furnaces on-site....
...The company wants to close its two remaining blast furnaces as quickly as possible and build a less carbon-intensive electric arc furnace....
...Unlike blast furnaces which use coke to reduce iron ore, electric arc furnaces melt down scrap or recycled steel....
...Gozzi said 80 per cent of Italian steelworks had already shifted to electric furnaces....
...The company, whose UK operations are losing more than £1mn a day, wants to close its two remaining blast furnaces and build a less carbon intensive electric arc furnace instead....
...For instance, a steelworks typically relines a blast furnace every 20 years — a major capital expenditure....
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