According to media reports, US Steel has provisionally idled its blast furnace No. 8 with a production capacity of almost one million mt per year at Gary Works in Gary, Indiana, due to lower demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. This situation will not affect employees at the moment.
US Steel has idled several blast furnaces in recent weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As reported by SteelOrbis previously, the company announced that it would idle its blast furnace No. 4 at Gary Works to begin a planned outage. In addition, the company stated that it would temporarily idle blast furnace “A” at Granite City Works as well as the iron and steelmaking facilities at Great Lakes Works for an indefinite period of time.
Besides, the company declared that it would halt all or most of its Lone Star Tubular Operations and Lorain Tubular Operations indefinitely.