Steel Mills
SDI Slates Four-Day Outage at Indiana Sheet Mill
Written by Michael Cowden
October 12, 2023
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.
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