Indeed, throughout the 1950s, as Europe’s steel-makers built new factories around the basic-oxygen process and simultaneously demolished its remaining open-hearth furnaces, Big Steel made ...

An explosion at the company’s blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace complex in Pennsylvania occurred during a maintenance procedure, according to the steelmaker.

One was the introduction of a process called basic oxygen steelmaking. Historically, steel was created in open hearths, a time-consuming and labour-intensive method.

Case in point was the replacement of open hearth furnaces with basic oxygen furnaces by the early 1950s, which US Steel only began to adopt in the 1960s.

The company will idle the Michigan basic oxygen furnace steel shop and continuous casting facilities. Dearborn Works’ finishing facilities, including the pickling line tandem cold mill and ...

Most steel-making plants in India require industrial oxygen to produce steel in a process called basic oxygen steel-making - where pure oxygen is blown into a molten pot of blast-furnace iron and ...