ArcelorMittal Galati, Romania-based subsidiary of the world's largest integrated metals and mining company ArcelorMittal, has said that it intends to restart its blast furnace (BF) No. 3 at the beginning of January 2011, two weeks earlier than originally scheduled.
As SteelOrbis previously reported, ArcelorMittal Galati closed its BF No. 3 from November 19 due to the decrease in orders, and was operating just with one of its two operating BFs, i.e., BF No. 4.
ArcelorMittal Galati's BF No. 5, after modernization in which the company is investing about €53 million, is planned to be restarted in the summer of 2011 and will allow the plant to double its annual pig iron production from 2.2 million mt to over 4.2 million mt.