British Steel has announced that it will keep its two Scunthorpe blast furnaces running and end consultation on redundancies after the UK Government took control of the business earlier this month ...

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

Aston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The two blast furnaces at British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant in England are the last of their kind in the UK. The UK steel ...

Employment roles at Scunthorpe steelworks may have to change to ensure the plant has a long-term future, the Business Secretary has said, after he was pressed on whether jobs could be lost.

The race to rescue the blast furnaces at British Steel's Scunthorpe plant continues, ITV News' North of England reporter Amy Welch has the latest. Raw materials secured by the Government will be ...

Raw materials needed to keep Scunthorpe’s blast furnaces going – including a huge shipment of coal – have now been paid for, Angela Rayner confirmed today. The Deputy Prime Minister made the ...

The government is confident it can secure the raw materials needed to keep blast furnaces going after taking control of British Steel from a Chinese company, Downing Street has said. There was ...

Once blast furnaces go out and cool they are impractical to restart. The government is being urged to 'get on with it' after it emerged the 55,000-ton delivery from Japan, which arrived on ...

The prospect of British Steel's closure looks a little less likely after the government stressed that help is on the way for the Scunthorpe plant. We’ve been hearing this morning that the ...

He added the government is "confident in securing the supply of materials needed" to keep running the two blast furnaces at the plant -- the last in the UK which makes steel from scratch.