Canada’s steel industry is witnessing significant changes as some of its steelmakers transition from blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) methods of primary steelmaking to a more ...
But it’ll come at a cost, with about 2,000 jobs lost. Workers from the Basic Oxygen Steelmaking plant gathered for a photo ahead of its closure We’ve been sent this picture of employees from ...
In the 20th century, the US industry successively adopted the open hearth furnace, then the basic oxygen steelmaking process. Since the American industry peaked in the 1940s and 1950s, the US industry ...