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SSAB Plans Three-Week Outage at Alabama Plate Mill in November

Written by Michael Cowden

June 26, 2021

SSAB Americas plans to take a three-week outage at its plate mill in Mobile, Ala., in late November and early December, a company spokeswoman said.

No outage is planned at the steelmaker’s plate mill in Montpelier, Iowa, for the balance of the year, she added.

SSABSSAB Americas – and subsidiary of Swedish steelmaker SSAB – takes routine maintenance outages at its electric-arc furnace (EAF) plate mills in the U.S. on a rotating basis.

The Alabama mill’s EAF has annual capacity of 1.27 million tons per year, according to the Association for Iron and Steel Technology’s (AIST’s) 2021 Directory of Iron and Steel Plants.

The Iowa mill’s EAF has annual capacity of roughly 1.19 million tons per year, per AIST.

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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