FEATURE: Russian steel mills resist giving up blast furnaces
2022-1-26 · Investments in blast furnaces (BFs) will not be curtailed for the next five-plus years, depending on mills' exposure to export markets where a CO2 tax will soon be in place, Renaissance Capital's Boris Sinitsyn said. In 2021 alone, MMK ordered a 3.7 million mt/year BF, Metalloinvest completed revamps of two of the four BFs at Ural Steel, while ...