The Pittsburgh-based steelmaker, one of the Region's largest employers, idled both the No. 3 blast furnace at Mon Valley Works in Pennsylvania and the No. 8 furnace in Gary last year after steel ...

Nigel Farage said reopening the blast furnaces was an "ambition" for his party Reform UK's leader Nigel Farage has said his party wants to bring blast furnaces back to Port Talbot should it come ...

Port Talbot was the largest steelmaking plant in the UK until the two blast furnaces were switched off in September 2024, which saw the loss of 2,800 jobs as part of the transition to greener ...

Blast furnace four, which was the final one to be turned off on September 30, 2024, was completed in January, 1954, and had undergone a number of upgrades and rebuilds including re-linings in 1978 ...

Nigel Farage will call for Port Talbot’s blast furnaces to reopen after they were shut down last year as Reform UK sets its sights on the Welsh elections in 2026. On a visit to the South Wales town, ...

Nigel Farage will pledge to reopen Port Talbot's steel blast furnaces if in power in Wales, as his Reform UK party sets its sights on being the government in the Senedd next year. In a speech in Port ...

At the time, only one blast furnace had been idled, and about 1,500 people worked at Granite City Works. U.S. Steel shut the second furnace down in 2023.

Nigel Farage will call for Port Talbot’s blast furnaces to reopen after they were shut down last year as Reform UK sets its sights on the Welsh elections in 2026. On a visit to the South Wales ...

The Government has backed plans for a new £1.25 billion electric arc furnace at the Tata steelworks, with the switch-on due in 2027 as part of the push towards greener production. Tata Steel’s Port ...

U.S. Steel is threatening a shift away from integrated steelmaking, which it's done in Northwest Indiana for nearly 120 years, if the $14.9 billion Nippon acquisition falls through.

Network Rail has struck a lifeline £500million deal with British Steel to help save the Scunthorpe blast furnaces – but the industry is still facing punitive 25 per cent US tariffs.

Both blast furnaces at the former U.S. Steel mill remain idled. Earlier this week, Craig McKey, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1899, said the mill employs roughly 900 employees.