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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Steelmakers plan greater use of electric furnaces

A blast furnace is seen in JFE Steel Corp.'s West Japan Works Kurashiki plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Dec. 15. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Major steelmakers are stepping up their use of electric furnaces, which emit less carbon dioxide than blast furnaces.

Decarbonization has become an important task for the whole of the steel industry, and the companies are speeding up the shift from blast to electric furnaces and the development of technologies for mass production with electric furnaces as realistic measures until the next generation of steel-making technologies can be established.

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