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With New Tech, POSCO Braces for Stricter Carbon Rules

A wall of heat and sulphur from a towering furnace stoked to 1,500 degrees Celsius hits onlookers at POSCO's Pohang plant in South Korea amid the din of coal and iron ore rattling into vats of molten metal. Pohang's oldest furnace, with a 35-year history, helped POSCO grow into the world's No.4 steel giant.