Removing impurities from coal to make coke – pure carbon – for use in the blast furnace

Hot-dip coated steel waiting to be galvanised. Galvanisation gives the steel a protective zinc coating to prevent rust

Unloading steel scrap to be recycled in an electric arc furnace

The charging ladle moving hot metal into a basic oxygen furnace to be made into steel

Seamless steel pipes on a cooling bed

Operators monitoring hot rolling process in the control centre

Unloading and sorting steel scrap to be recycled in an electric arc furnace

Rolling process at Novolipetsk (NLMK Group)