A worker uses an electric furnace to make steel. Steelmaking contributes roughly 7–9% of human-made greenhouse gas emissions, posing a huge climate challenge. Credit: Shutterstock Achieving that ...

It's been half a century since BlueScope began its Basic Oxygen Steelmaking, but many ex-employees still recall the momentous day the BOS furnace cranked its first heat.

Journalist Glen Humphries and photographer Sylvia Liber pull back the steel curtain and take you deep inside BlueScope's Port Kembla steelworks. This week they explore Basic Oxygen Steelmaking. Read ...

Although world steel production has grown at a relatively slow rate since the mid 1970s, the process by which the steel is produced has changed, with a continuing shift from open hearth to oxygen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This method of steelmaking can use up to 100% scrap steel as its raw material, resulting in a significant reduction in carbon ...

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