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USS Fixes Pipe, Resumes Output at Edgar Thomson

Written by Michael Cowden

April 7, 2021

U.S. Steel has repaired a broken pipe that led to a brief outage at its Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pa., company officials said.

And both of the mill’s blast furnaces are back online, a U.S. Steel spokeswoman told Steel Market Update on Thursday, April 8.

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“We do not expect any impact on customer deliveries,” a company spokesman said.

A burst water main on April 6 resulted in the Braddock mill temporarily halting operations.

Edgar Thomson, which is part of U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works, has two blast furnaces, the No. 1, which has annual capacity of 1.09 million tons, and the No. 3, which sports capacity of 1 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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