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Smelting Steel With Sunlight: New Solar Trap Tech Could Help Decarbonize Industrial Heat

Some of the hardest sectors to decarbonize are industries that require high temperatures like steel smelting and cement production. A new approach uses a synthetic quartz solar trap to generate ...

U.S. Steel secures permit to build $100 million slag recycler

U.S. Steel announced Monday it secured permission from the Allegheny County Health Department to build a $100 million slag ...
Engadget

MIT accidentally discovered a cleaner smelting process

Sometimes, science can take an unexpected turn. While trying to develop a new kind of high temperature storage battery, MIT researchers accidentally stumbled upon a new, more efficient process for ...
PR Newswire

Metal Logic launches modular, scalable low emission smelting platform, with a site secured for first deployment in the Pilbara region

MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Low-emission steel platform Metal Logic has secured a strategic location in Western Australia's iron ore–rich Pilbara region to deploy its ...