One of integrated steelmaker US Steel's blast furnaces at its Gary Works in Indiana will be down for maintenance until late May.
The 1.2mn short tons/yr No. 8 blast furnace at the Gary, Indiana, steel mill was taken down on 11 April for a 45-day outage. The outage could reduce hot metal production by 148,000st.
In September, US Steel took down the 1.36mn st/yr No 6 blast furnace at the Gary mill for maintenance.
Gary Works has four blast furnaces.
The company announced this week that it will take a 21-day maintenance outage in October at its 1.4mn st/yr No 1 blast furnace at its Mon Valley Works near Pittsburgh.
