For the past 150 years, steelmaking has been a big, hot business centered around enormous blast furnaces that burn metallurgical coal to melt iron. Those furnaces are the chief driver of the ...

After a prolonged research and start-up phase, a galvanized scrap “de-zincing” operation is up and running and ready to start a steady production schedule. Both generators and consumers of ferrous ...

Horsehead Holding Corp. has completed a preliminary feasibility study to construct a 150,000-ton-per-year zinc plant based on “green” technology. Initial work has commenced on basic design and ...

The recycling and recovery of metals from spent alkaline and zinc‐carbon batteries are emerging as pivotal processes in the sustainable management of battery waste. These processes involve a sequence ...