“Definitely hot. There was this huge pot of molten steel and these big hammers that would come down and pound the steel.” Rodney Sharp, 59, worked at Crucible for 28 years, first as a forger ...

When the steel industry rapidly expanded in the 1990s in China, the fashionable research topic was working out how to remove impurities from molten steel. Zhai, instead, turned his attention to ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – These are dark days for the century-old Crucible mill known for forging high-strength steel for car parts, ...

Metalworking might conjure images of large furnaces powered by coal, wood, or electricity, with molten metal sloshing around and visible in its crucible. But metalworking from home doesn’t need ...