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The Guardian // World // Europe

Scunthorpe steelworks: why can’t you just turn a blast furnace off and what is a salamander tap?

Monday 14th April 2025, 11:08AM

From coking coal to the ‘four queens’, here’s what you need to know about workings of UK’s last two blast furnacesBritish Steel to deploy emergency measures to save furnacesBritish Steel is scrambling to find enough raw materials to keep steel production going at Scunthorpe, after the government took control of the plant on Saturday.If the materials do not arrive in time then the end of production at at least one of the steelworks’ two blast furnaces could come within days. Continue reading...

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