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Cliffs Slates 45-Day Outage for Partial Reline of IH7 Blast Furnace
Written by Michael Cowden
June 25, 2021
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. plans to take a 45-day maintenance outage at the big No. 7 blast furnace at its Indiana Harbor steel works in East Chicago, Ind., a company spokeswoman said.
The planned outage, for a partial reline of the furnace, is scheduled to start on Sept. 1, she said.
The No. 7 furnace has capacity of 11,500 tons per day, according to SMU’s blast furnace status table – making it the largest blast furnace in North America by a wide margin.
Cleveland-Cliffs President and CEO Lourenco Goncalves had said during an earnings call earlier this year that the iron ore miner and steelmaker expected to take an outage on the No. 7 furnace.
Indiana Harbor makes hot-rolled, cold-rolled, hot-dipped galvanized and aluminized sheet for a wide range of downstream industries – including automotive, appliance and distribution.
By Michael Cowden, Michael@SteelMarketUpdate.com
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