SDI Slates Four-Day Outage at Indiana Sheet Mill

Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) plans to take a four-day outage at its sheet mill in Butler, Ind., according to sources familiar with the matter.

The outage will begin on Sunday, Oct. 15. It comes on the heels of an outage at the steelmaker’s sheet mill in Columbus, Miss.

SDI is just one of several domestic mills taking maintenance outages. Also, U.S. Steel last month idled steelmaking operations at its Granite City Works near St. Louis.

Lead times have stretched out because of those issues. They have also stretched out because mill price increases last month spurred more buying activity, market participants said.

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.