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...While many steel products are now made using the newer technology of scrap-fed electric arc furnaces, blast furnaces like the ones at the two plants in Indiana remain critical for automotive products — which...
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...State-owned media in Vietnam call the aggressive drive, with the so-called Central Steering Committee on Anti-corruption at the helm, “a burning furnace”. Chanh regards it as “Mr Trong’s furnace.”...
...Musk told a Tesla owners’ club last month that the company’s plants in Texas and Germany were “gigantic money furnaces right now”, losing billions of dollars as they struggle to secure parts and accelerate...
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...The electricity will power almost 90 per cent of the energy needed by the mill, including the electric arc furnace that pulsates at its heart, melting more than 1m tonnes of scrap metal a year....
...DD readers will be familiar by now with the exploits of Sanjeev Gupta, the British businessman who out of nowhere built a $20bn energy-to-metals empire in just a few years by snapping up unwanted furnaces...
...One of the people said the HVAC business, which manufactures and sells air conditioners, heat pumps and furnaces, is a “very attractive business, it’s performed well”....
...My flat is on the top of a three-storey building in the centre of the Tunisian capital and it transforms into a furnace for the months of June, July and August....
...“Regulations are always forged in the fiery furnace of recessions. But we have to think deeply about these issues.”...
...Pellets can help limit harmful emissions and boost the productivity of steel furnaces....
...A crackdown on steel production from old-fashioned induction furnaces had boosted activity at blast furnaces and hence demand for met coal, said David Lipschitz, an analyst at Macquarie....
...says it expected to have delivered record volumes over the weekend, noting that typical gas usage on the coldest winter days has grown more than 30 per cent since 2011 as customers replace heating oil furnaces...
...Another is Bristol’s Ndemic Creations, which created Plague Inc, a hit video game that simulates infectious disease outbreaks....
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...When Julie Meadows talks about the impending closure of her workplace, the Carrier furnace factory on the edge of Indianapolis, her anger gives way to something stronger — fear....
...Shifts in ratios between the two can determine the competitiveness of the blast furnace or electric arc furnace route, and hence the prospects for many steel companies and steelmakers around the world....
...Countries aspiring to build nuclear power plants must join an international queue for a crucial part of the reactor core made in a single Hokkaido furnace by Japan Steel Works....
...Sahaviriya Steel Industries, the Thai company that bought the Redcar blast furnace and surrounding plants and resumed production in April 2012, paid good money — too good, thinks former blast furnace worker...
...It had never manufactured sapphire before, but it had a small business designing sapphire furnaces and it needed to diversify....
...Demand for gas hits a peak in winter when furnaces and power plants draw down stocks....
...Under the settlement, GT will sell more than 2,000 furnaces it had planned to use to make sapphire for Apple....
...French government after his company ArcelorMittal was accused of “lying” and “blackmail” by Mr Montebourg, who said the world’s biggest steel producer should quit France after it planned to close two blast furnaces...
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