Due to bad weather conditions, ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the Kazakhstan-based subsidiary of steel giant ArcelorMittal, has reduced its production operations and so will not be able to fulfill its February production plan.
Thus, the producer's steel output in the current month will amount to 200,000 mt instead of the previously-scheduled 300,000 mt, while the production and deliveries of rolled steel products are expected to total 190,000 mt instead of 260,000 mt.
"Low temperatures, which continued over a long time, caused a number of emergency halts of equipment in some divisions," reads the company's statement.
On February 2, an accident occurred at ArcelorMittal Temirtau's converter shop; the ladle of the second converter overturned, leading to a leak of 280 mt of liquid steel. The causes of the accident are being investigated.