MUSCATINE, Ia. — Dust from waste material used to cover Muscatine County's gravel roads could be hurting the health of rural area children, a new report says. Dust from the slag, a byproduct from ...

The asphalt paving industry in the United States has matured and improved due to the foresight of agencies, road builders/contractors, academic researchers, material suppliers, and consultants in our ...

Scientists are exploring whether a legacy of the UK’s polluting industrial past, the dozens of slag heaps that dot the country, could chart the way to a cleaner future by slowing climate change. Since ...

Heidelberg Materials North America has moved towards sustainability by turning one of its cement plants into a slag grinding facility. Slag is often disregarded as a waste product from metals during ...

The behaviour of slag viscosity is critical to optimising metallurgical processes, with composition emerging as a key parameter in designing and controlling operational efficiency. Slags, complex ...

A slag recycling project at the Ostrava, Czech Republic, ArcelorMittal steel mill has been honored by that nation’s Ministry of Industry and Trade through its “Transforming waste into resources” ...

Australian scientists are trying to close the loop on steel waste and sewage wastewater. When they made new concrete using these waste materials, the results were 17 percent stronger than concrete ...

Steel slag has been used in construction projects all over the Netherlands and pollution is widespread, according to an investigation by NU.nl. Investico and the Groene Amsterdammer. The investigation ...

Slag from the steel industry could help save some of Wales' most rare plants, according to an ecologist. The material, regarded as waste, has been described as a potential "game-changer" when it comes ...

Specialized heavy vehicles always amazes me. There are countless highly specific vehicles, designed to do incredibly difficult jobs, that most of us have never heard of. Before today, I didn’t even ...

Computed tomography is now doing for ancient metalworking what it once did for medicine, turning opaque fragments of slag into detailed cross-sections of early technology. By peering inside 5,000-year ...