Steel Mills

Big River Steel Completes Maintenance Outage

Written by Michael Cowden

November 3, 2021

U.S. Steel has resumed production at its Big River Steel electric arc furnace (EAF) sheet mill in Osceola, Ark., following a two-week maintenance outage last month, a company spokeswoman said.

Big River SteelThe outage had commenced on Oct. 10. SMU has updated its EAF status table to reflect the change.

Big River Steel has annual capacity of approximately 3.3 million tons, according to parent company U.S. Steel’s webpage.

The mill makes hot-rolled, cold-rolled, coated and electrical steels.

U.S. Steel has also or soon will resume production at two blast furnaces that had been scheduled for maintenance.

By Michael Cowden, Micahel@SteelMarketUpdate.com

Michael Cowden

Michael Cowden is managing editor for Steel Market Update. Cowden has covered the steel industry since 2007. He specializes in flat-rolled steel but has also reported on steel long products, steel pipe and tube, and aluminum. Before joining SMU, Cowden held reporting jobs at Fastmarkets AMM in Chicago, the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, and the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. He has also worked as a copy editor and in marketing at the University of Chicago Press. Cowden has a BA in English from the University of Chicago and an MSJ journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Contact him at michael@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7872.

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