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NLMK Indiana Resumes After Planned Outage

Written by Michael Cowden

November 18, 2021

NLMK USA has resumed production at its electric arc furnace (EAF) sheet mill in Portage, Ind., after a planned maintenance outage, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The outage at the mill – also known as NLMK Indiana – began earlier this month and had been expected to conclude in about a week.

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NLMK USA typically takes a one-week outage every six months at the northwest Indiana mill – one over the summer and another in November or early December.

It makes hot-rolled coil, hot-rolled pickle and oil, and high carbon and alloy material, according to its website.

Its EAF has capacity of 680,000 tons per year, and its hot strip mill has annual capacity of one million tons per year, according to the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) 2021 Directory of Iron and Steel Plants.

By Michael Cowden, Michael@SteelMarketUpdate.com

Michael Cowden

Michael Cowden is managing editor for Steel Market Update. Cowden has covered the steel industry since 2007. He has since 2014 specialized in flat-rolled steel but has previously reported on steel long products, steel pipe and tube as well as aluminum. Before joining SMU, Cowden held reporting jobs at Fastmarkets AMM in Chicago - where he was involved in launching AMM's daily hot-rolled coil index, 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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