The slag itself has a number of industrial uses, including as a component of cement, insulation and soil additives. Assessing the elemental composition of blast furnace slag is essential to determine ...

JANET, Pittsfield A: It is slag, but without seeing it, I cannot be 100 percent sure, just 95 percent sure that isn't from a glass furnace, but rather from an iron furnace. I believe it was during a ...

Metso Outotec is launching the innovative DRI (direct reduced iron) smelting furnace to substitute blast furnaces for iron and steel making. The DRI furnace is one of Metso Outotec’s key solutions for ...

Technology that harvests blast furnace waste and converts it into an ingredient for cement is being trialled for commercialisation in China, where 60 per cent of the world’s iron waste is produced.

In a statement on the steelmaker’s website, the company says a slag pit eruption at the No. 4 Blast Furnace caused “a significant air emission” just after 11 a.m. on Christmas Day.

Marie Verdun, a spokesperson for ArcelorMittal Dofasco, said the fire was a result of a "slag pit eruption." "At approximately 11:10 a.m. a slag pit eruption occurred at the No. 4 Blast Furnace.

EAST CANAAN — As I look at the Beckley Furnace, I can imagine an iron worker, covered in ashes and soot, grunting as he pushes a wheelbarrow full of slag over a bridge crossing the Blackberry ...

"Iron slag, the waste material left behind after smelting and blacksmithing, is not an uncommon find on archaeological sites but the survival of metalworking hearths or furnaces is much rarer ...