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Algoma to conclude planned plate mill outage at month's end

Written by Michael Cowden

April 25, 2024

Algoma Steel Inc. expects to wrap up a previously announced outage on its plate mill by the end of this month, a company spokeswoman said.

The outage is part of the Canadian flat-rolled steelmaker’s $130 million CAD ($95 million USD) modernization project. It began in mid-April.

“As this was a planned outage, we anticipate no negative impact to our customers,” the spokeswoman said in an email to SMU on Wednesday.

SMU reported in November that the Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario-based steelmaker planned to take a 20-day outage in April.

Algoma’s plate mill is part of a facility that can make sheet up to 96 inches wide and plate up to 154 inches wide. Its offerings also include floor plate, which is made from sheet, up to 96 inches wide.

The company plans to host a ribbon cutting at the plate mill in June to commemorate the modernization project, the spokeswoman said.

The upgrades have been underway since 2019.

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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