Last year, Big River Steel in Osceola, Arkansas, USA, produced 1.65Mt of steel with just 518 employees. CEO Dave Stickler is planning to up that to 3.3Mt with only an additional 150 employees. How do you do that, Dave? By Matthew Moggridge, editor of Steel Times International

Granulation of raw materials is the single most important factor in controlling the permeability of the sinter bed and hence the productivity of the sinter line. Treatment of the binding water in a magnetic field reduced its surface tension enabling better binding of the small fraction size…

The selection of refractory lining design and installation of targeted high-wear areas of torpedo ladle lining using innovative techniques have doubled the life of torpedo ladles to 2,500 cycles equating to the transport of 775kt hot metal per ladle before relining. This is the first step…

Researchers at Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) have been using thermodynamic databases and FactSage 6.4 software to optimise the parameters of slag basicity and slag oxygen potential in order to optimise the desulphurisation of liquid steel in the ladle. By Snehangshu Roy, Rajeev Kumar…

The EAF process is the subject of continuous cost and process improvements and energy models help to benchmark a particular EAF process by accounting for variations in production parameters, such as deviations in raw materials quality and process parameters such as metal yield, oxygen…

If there is one word that has been on the lips of most steelmakers for some time now, it’s ‘overcapacity’. Very often another word is not that far away: China. In this article, leading US law firm Wiley Rein’s Alan Price, Christopher Weld, Laura El-Sabaawi and Adam Teslik take an in-depth…