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North Star BlueScope Slates April, June Outages Amid Expansion Work

Written by Michael Cowden

February 8, 2021

North Star BlueScope will take a planned outage in April at its flat-rolled steel mill in Delta, Ohio, a company spokesman said.

The company normally has outages in the spring and fall. The outages will be 3-7 days in duration, he said.

This year North Star BlueScope will split the spring outage between April and June to coordinate with expansion project work. The fall outage is scheduled for November, the spokesman said.northstar bluescope

“The outage schedule is communicated well in advance to allow customers time to adjust their order patterns,” he said.

North Star BlueScope’s expansion project, which entails adding a third EAF and second caster, is expected to boost capacity by approximately 1 million short tons (850,000 metric tons or 936,965 short tons), according to an investor presentation.

The facility currently has capacity of 2.3 million tons per year, according to the Association for Iron and Steel Technology’s 2021 directory of iron and steel plants.

By Michael Cowden, Michael@SteelMarketUpdate.com

 

 

Michael Cowden

Michael Cowden is editor-in-chief 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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