Finland-based Metso Corp. has opened a direct-reduced iron (DRI) smelting furnace pilot facility in Pori, Finland. The company says the new facility will allow customer-specific pilot-scale testing to ...

Vale S. A. has announced that furnace #2 at its Copper Cliff smelter in Sudbury, Ontario, will be closed for a minimum of 16 weeks. According to a Vale announcement, the furnace closure is expected to ...

A Cornish scrapyard owner has been ordered to repay more than £1.2 million. This comes after it was found to have been smelting aluminium in breach of the environmental permit for a number of years.