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AM/NS Calvert Outage to Focus on Hot Mill, Pickle Line: Sources

Written by Michael Cowden

March 19, 2021

AM/NS Calvert will take an approximately four-day planned outage on its hot strip mill and an approximately seven-day outage on the facility’s pickle line in May, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Steel Market Update had previously reported that the Alabama steel mill would take an outage in May. The latest information provides greater detail on that outage.

AM NS CalvertThe hot mill outage will run from May 18-21 and the pickle line outage from May 10-16, sources said.

An AM/NS Calvert spokeswoman did not respond to a request for confirmation of those dates.

The slab conversion facility has the capacity to produce 5.3 million tons of flat-rolled carbon annually, according to the company’s website. That amounts to 14,521 tons per day, according to SMU calculations.

Calvert’s operations include a hot strip mill, a stand-alone continuous pickle line and three hot-dipped galvanizing lines.

Market participants generally seemed nonplussed by the short outage on its own.

The bigger impact is expected to come from integrated mill outages and, in particular, lengthy blast furnace outages, combined with a host of smaller electric-arc furnace and hot strip mill outages, they said.

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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