Hyundai Steel's No. 1 blast furnace to be normalized next month
Jun 17, 2016
Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea's No. 2 steelmaker, announced Friday that its original blast furnace in Dangjin, central South Korea, could be normalized next month.The daily steel output of the blast furnace in Dangjin, about 120 kilometers south of Seoul, has recently dropped to about 3,000 tons a day, or 30 percent of its normal output.Hyundai Steel said the temperature in the No. 1 blast furnace dropped below 1,500 C, the melting point of steel, due to a problem in heat transmission inside th