US’s leading steel maker US Steel has announced that it has idled its 1.5 million short tons per year capacity No 8 blast furnace at its Gary Works steel mill in Indiana on 7 September for an indefinite period due to market conditions and continued high levels of imports. US Steel had earlier preponed a planned 30-day outage on blast furnace No 3 at Mon Valley Works from October to September. Work on the blast furnace began on 3 September 3. Blast furnace No 3 has approximately 1.4 million net tons per year capacity. US has also idled tin line 5 at Gary Works due to market conditions and elevated levels of tin product imports. Tin line 5 has approximately 140,000 net tons of annual capability. US Steel also pulled forward a planned 60-day outage on blast furnace 2 at US Steel Kosice K from October to September. Work on the blast furnace began on 4 September. Blast furnace 2 has approximately 1.7 million net tons of annual capacity
US’s leading steel maker US Steel has announced that it has idled its 1.5 million short tons per year capacity No 8 blast furnace at its Gary Works steel mill in Indiana on 7 September for an indefinite period due to market conditions and continued high levels of imports. US Steel had earlier preponed a planned 30-day outage on blast furnace No 3 at Mon Valley Works from October to September. Work on the blast furnace began on 3 September 3. Blast furnace No 3 has approximately 1.4 million net tons per year capacity. US has also idled tin line 5 at Gary Works due to market conditions and elevated levels of tin product imports. Tin line 5 has approximately 140,000 net tons of annual capability. US Steel also pulled forward a planned 60-day outage on blast furnace 2 at US Steel Kosice K from October to September. Work on the blast furnace began on 4 September. Blast furnace 2 has approximately 1.7 million net tons of annual capacity
