Efforts to decarbonize the steel industry are unfolding against a backdrop of familiar challenges and shifting global priorities. While technological advancements and regulatory initiatives are ...
A new iron making technology developed in China is set to significantly impact the global steel industry. Developed after more than 10 years of research, this method injects finely ground iron ore ...
The $1.6 trillion global steel industry generates between 7% and 9% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Boston Metal has been working for a decade to develop, refine and scale technologies for ...
Steel production is the backbone of today’s modern economy. The human-made metal is used in just about everything—from bridges and buildings to cars and consumer goods. However, the process to produce ...
With more than $350 million in venture funding and a new factory in Brazil, Boston Metal looks to scale up production of its green method for making steel. If steel were a country, it would be the ...
Steel is a major building block of our modern world, used to make everything from cutlery to bridges and wind turbines. But the way it’s made – using coal – is making climate change worse. On average, ...
There is a way of making things that works from the inside out, and it produces shapes no other method can. Almost every other approach is subtractive or formative: material is cut away, bent, beaten ...
Three former SpaceX engineers have switched their attention from making rocket engines to manufacturing steel parts by using AI-driven software and robots. Their immediate goal involves establishing a ...
Most enterprises run into the ‘Steel Curtain’ when they try to decarbonize steel. But Electra sees a way around the impenetrable fortress — a tribute to the 1970s all-star Pittsburgh Steeler defense.
Steel has been used by humanity for thousands of years. Iron production can be traced back to Anatolia in about 2000 BC, with the iron age well-established by 1000 BC. By 500 BC, iron technology had ...