In response to British Steel’s collapse, the UK government has passed an emergency law to nationalise it. This decision follows shocking news reports that the steel giant’s Chinese owner, Jingye, was ...

What chaos. The UK government wants to pose as the saviour of traditional steelmaking in the UK. It will discover that using ...

Chemists are pioneering a clean, electrochemical method to make iron, a key step in decarbonizing the steel industry. Their ...

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

Even its strongest argument, national security, needs closer scrutiny ...

Jonathan Reynolds, speaking to reporters in Scunthorpe, said that nationalisation was the "likely option at this stage".

At the risk of exposing my ignorance I would like someone to explain why. Their product, pig iron, or its immediate derivative, mild steel, isn’t high tech, and as I understand it much of the ...

The U_K_ government says that it has bought enough raw materials to keep Britain’s last steelmaking blast furnaces operating ...

After stepping in to take control of British Steel over the weekend, the Government faced a race against time to get materials such as coking coal and iron ore to the site.