Tata Steel's bid to build a £1.25bn electric arc furnace at its Port Talbot steelworks has been given the go-ahead by planners. Neath Port Talbot planning committee approved the company’s plans to ...

The electric arc furnace will melt mostly scrap steel and ... it is expected to be the biggest of its kind in the world, melting mostly scrap to produce three million tonnes of new steel a year.

Arc melting furnace can melt metals and alloys at over 3000°C with the aid of the electric arc between the non-consumable tungsten electrode and the copper crucible. Therefore, the arc furnace is a ...