Nippon Steel Studies Shift from Blast Furnaces to Electric Arc Furnaces

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Nippon Steel Corporation (Tokyo) has begun studies to further shift from the blast furnace (BF) steelmaking process to the electric arc furnace (EAF) process by using the Yawata Works Tobata Area Steel Mill in Kitakyushu and the Hirohata Steel Mill in Himeji as candidate sites.

Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Metals & Minerals Project Database can click here for the Yawata Furnace 01 Addition project report and click here for the Hirohata Furnace 02 Addition project report.

A new EAF already has begun commercial operations to produce high-grade steel at the Hirohata Steel Mill. The Hirohata Furnace 01 operation started in October 2022. Subscribers can click here for the project report.

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