Blast furnaces are pretty helpful when Minecraft players need to smelt items in a hurry, but they also make excellent floor patterns for industrial and medieval builds.

Amidst the hissing hydraulics and safety beeps that announce the drill arm’s movement, Patrik Midebjörk motions me over. Midebjörk is blast furnace manager at SSAB’s steel plant in Luleå ...

The team behind the complex demolition of Redcar Blast Furnace are now making final preparations before the historic razing of the steel behemoth. Thompsons of Prudhoe have worked closely on the ...

Bringing down a hulking blast furnace doesn’t happen overnight. Project Manager Mike Stoddart, ... 1st Floor, Chartist Tower, Upper Dock Street, Newport, Wales, NP20 1DW | 01676637 | ...

Ian Wright and a picture he took whilst building the Blast Furnace in 1976 (Image: Eden Lewis). Tony Evans was another former worker who started in 1984 after serving in the Marines.

Replacing the blast furnaces here with electric arc furnaces could cost up to £3bn, especially if Tata uses the opportunity to replace some of the aged steel production facilities here too. So ...

The blast furnace closure could see the UK’s entire carbon emissions reduced by around 1.5 ... on the casting floor, an almost volcanic-like stream of molten iron pours from the base of the ...