Monitors technological advance in the industry, with an increasing input of engineering and product related material. As well as first class refereed papers from the international iron and steel community, there are company and academic research profiles, expert analytical reports on landmark conferences and Steel Forum, a section aimed at the Steel Division of the Institute of Materials. Subjects covered in recent issues: Flowrate sensor for pulverised coal injection into blast furnace; On line monitoring of mould-shell interaction during continuous casting of steel billets; Modelling of hot strip mill runout table using artificial neural networks; Use of ultrasound in strip steel pickling process; Resonance mould system in continuous casting; Partition of sulphur and manganese between blast furnace slag and hot metal; Analysis of surface and internal cracks in continuously cast beam blank. Incorporates Steel World.