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    July 7, 2021

    SDI Columbus Up and Running After Unplanned Outage

    Written by Michael Cowden

    Steel Dynamics Inc.’s flat-rolled steel mill in Columbus, Miss., is operating as usual after an unplanned outage in June on one of its electric arc furnaces (EAFs).

    The Columbus facility is “back up and running,” an SDI spokeswoman confirmed to Steel Market Update.

    The plant went down for a 10-day outage on June 20 after hot metal burned through one of the mill’s two EAFs. About 25,000-30,000 tons of production were estimated to have been lost as a result.

    The EAF restarted on June 30 following repairs, the spokeswoman said.

    The two EAFs at the Columbus mill have combined annual capacity of 3.1 million tons per year, according to the Association for Iron & 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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