From coking coal to the ‘four queens’, here’s what you need to know about workings of UK’s last two blast furnaces
British Steel to deploy emergency measures to save furnacesBusiness live – latest updates
British 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.
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