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...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....
...The company last year delayed plans to reline its blast furnace, extending the life of that equipment....
...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....
...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....
...This compares with a traditional blast furnace that can only use up to a maximum of 30 per cent of scrap....
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...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....
...India-owned Tata Steel last week pulled back from the brink of an announcement that two of the UK’s remaining four coal-fired blast furnaces would close imminently, with an electric arc furnace to be erected...
...The switch to electric arc furnaces ought to be an important part of the puzzle, but not the final step....
...It also wants to use more gas as it moves from traditional blast furnaces to less carbon-intensive electric arc furnaces....
...The high value of artistic projects makes them more cost-effective for furnaces than tableware and other production glass....
...The glass furnaces turn my studio into a sauna, so going for an icy dip is the best way to unwind. When I want a warm swim, I stop by Badeanstalten Spanien, the city’s historic public baths....
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