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Corex®, new process developed by the VOEST-Alpine AG ( VOEST, Vereinigte Oesterreichische Eisen- und Stahlwerke AG) for low-cost environmentally sensitive production of crude iron directly from carbon and iron ore. In this process a fusion carburettor is used instead of a conventional blast furnace, the iron ore is processed in a reduction shaft and carbonising and sintering plants have become superfluous. The first C. plant was opened in Pretoria (South Africa) in 1989.