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North Star BlueScope EAF Outage Will Not Impact Customers
Written by John Packard
March 8, 2019
On Wednesday, North Star BlueScope experienced issues with the lining in one of its electric arc furnaces, causing the company to take the furnace down for repairs. According to a North Star executive with whom Steel Market Update spoke with this morning, the furnace will be back up today (Friday) with no impact to any customer orders.
“If the customers didn’t read about it, they wouldn’t have known it had happened,” said the executive. North Star BlueScope has two EAFs at the Delta, Ohio, facility. “We can make a whole lot more than half the tons with just one furnace. We just run the second furnace hard. It’s really no big deal.”
SMU was told that the company was running ahead of schedule on their orders. To ensure there will not be any production shortage issues, a planned down day for maintenance scheduled for next week will be “pulled up” (the maintenance is being done on the furnace as they repair the lining issue).
With its two EAFs, North Star BlueScope produces 2.1 million tons of hot rolled coil annually.
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