Blast furnaces are the heart of the steel industry, transforming raw materials into molten iron, which is then converted into steel. This process ...

Coal being added to a blast furnace at Govan Iron Works, Glasgow, c1880. Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution. Image caption, The Newcomen steam engine was ...

The two blast furnaces at British Steel's Scunthorpe plant in England are the last of their kind in the UK. The UK steel industry was once a world ...