The last decade was turbulent for the steel industry. The reorganization of the steel industry across borders has progressed and increased the demand for steel products, which has made the price of raw materials such as iron ore and metallurgical coal more volatile than ever. The ironmaking technology division at Nippon Steel Corporation has been exposed to global competition and has tried to cope with these changes and to increase its international competitiveness by developing such technologies as the utilization of lower grade raw materials (including fine particle ores and high phosphorus iron ores), productivity enhancement, measures for energy conservation and reduction of CO2 and NOx emission, and so on. This presentation describes the recent progress in ironmaking technologies in Nippon Steel Corporation.
CITATION:Saito, K, 2019. Recent research and development topics of iron-making technologies in Nippon Steel Corporation, in Proceedings Iron Ore 2019, p 19 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne). This is an abstract only. No full paper was prepared for this presentation.