IperionX pilot titanium facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, built with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E program. I always have an eye out for major manufacturing process innovations ...

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Most U.S. steel is made in massive, slow-acting, open-hearth furnaces. Last week U.S. Steel Corp. announced tests of a new type of furnace which makes the same kinds of steel a great deal faster. Open ...

Up to about 1870 railroad rails were made of iron because the cost of making steel in quantity was prohibitive. Then the converters invented by Henry Bessemer got going and steel became much cheaper.

One of the most important materials in today’s world is steel. It has become an integral building block in humanity’s ever-expanding domain on Earth and lets us build everything from towering ...