Luxembourg-based global steelmaker
ArcelorMittal has announced that it is investing €92 million in a complete revamp of the blast furnace No. 2 at its Dunkirk plant in
France.
The Dunkirk plant's
slab output capacity will remain at 7 million mt per year, to supply other plants within
ArcelorMittal including Florange and Liège. With the production at Fos-sur-Mer and Dunkirk,
ArcelorMittal's total production of liquid steel in
France is 11 million mt per year, or 40 percent of the production volume within
ArcelorMittal Flat Carbon Europe.
According to
ArcelorMittal, the full revamping will take place during the second half of 2015 and will last four months. In 2015, after 23 years of production, the blast furnace No. 2 will have produced 26 million mt of
crude steel.