coke
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“Because it’s the first contract with Nippon Steel, they’d like to have a quick signing and smooth transition,” said Andrew Macey, a worker at Mon Valley’s coke plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Inventories have resumed building, while stronger coking coal and coke prices are reshaping profit distribution across the steelmaking chain, adding further pressure on iron ore, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
“I had to take a few jelly beans and coke to get going. It wasn’t the prettiest innings but sometimes you’ve got to do it ugly.”
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
Ministers announced 55,000 tonnes of blast furnace coke arrived from Australia at the port of Immingham on Saturday and would be transferred by rail to Scunthorpe.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
The bellows forced quick flaring heat from the coke.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
No coals are now coked at the Clyde iron works; at all the three furnaces the iron is smelted with coals.
From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage
In the fire, a similar breaking away of the surface takes place, and when coked, the coal is but moderately coherent.
From Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel by Samuel W. (Samuel William) Johnson
After the wood is completely charred, or the coal become coked, the subsequent changes are the same that happen in the charcoal furnaces.
From Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Rufus Porter
With air heated and coals not coked; 2 1/4; 3 1/4; 7 1/2; 65 Notes.
From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage
All of these, when coked, may be served on slices of toasted bread, or served in Pattie-cases, with cream sauce, or served simply with cream sauce.
From Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith Thomas
“She’s going to have to get the trust of the steelworkers,” said Richard Tikey, a union local vice president at the coking coal plant for U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The resource powered steamships, heated homes, and supported metal production through coking processes.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026
And Venezuelan crude constitutes heavy oils that need specialized, complex refineries with coking and desulfurization units.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
He sees the fall and subsequent rise in both thermal and coking coal prices lining up broadly “with China’s year-on-year rise and fall in coal production.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Nine herons stand like flowers in the canal beside the coking plant.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
