Saudi Arabia’s United SULB which had been idle since the beginning of summer resumed operation in September. It plans to produce about 100,000 tonnes of structural steel in Q4 which corresponds to 66% capacity.

As previously reported, the facilities were stopped after the plant was acquired by Bahrain’s United Steel, a JV of Kuwait’s Foulath and Japan’s Yamato Steel. Nevertheless, the output is expected at about 114,000 tonnes to 120,000 tonnes in Q1 2012.

The Arabian plant runs a long product mill capable of producing 450,000 tonnes of H-beam, channel, equal angle and other structural steel.

(Sourced from Metalexpert)