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    June 5, 2014

    No. 8 Blast Furnace Down at US Steel Gary Works

    Written by John Packard

    US Steel has another unplanned outage, this time at their Gary Works facility. The furnace went down on Sunday and is expected to be down for anywhere from three to six weeks according to SMU sources. The furnace, referenced as #8 by US Steel, is the smallest of the four operating furnaces at the Gary Works steelmaking operations. Rated at 3,300 net tons of pig iron per day by AIST the outage has the potential to impact approximately 69,000 tons of pig iron capacity.

    A US Steel spokesperson told SMU, “On Sunday, Gary Works had an incident without injury which resulted in a disruption of the operation of the No. 8 blast furnace. Repairs are progressing.”

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