Steel Mills

'Tis the season for fall maintenance outages

August 20, 2024

We’re already halfway through the third quarter of 2024. Fall is coming in North America, and with it, steel mills’ regularly scheduled fall maintenance outages.

In a slow, unsure market with uncertainty swirling around steel demand, steel prices, and November’s elections, some mills have even moved up their planned outages in anticipation of a better market later in Q4 or beyond.

SMU has received multiple reports from various sources of outages slated for the rest of the year at flat-rolled steel mills across North America. SMU contacted all the mills for confirmation but received just one reply: U.S. Steel said they were “looking into this” for us, but still had not responded by our publication deadline. Therefore, note that the outages listed below are all unconfirmed.

While this is not a comprehensive list, it provides some sense that the outages coming through year’s end are not insignificant.

If you know of any other upcoming outages or changes to the list below, please contact laura@steelmarketupdate.com.

Editor’s note: The chart above has been updated with a revised production loss estimate for USS’ Gary Works.

Laura Miller

Laura Miller is a reporter and editor for Steel Market Update. Since 2007, she has held various editorial and marketing positions with steel industry publications, associations, and mills. In 2021, after a five-year hiatus working across other industries, she returned to steel trade journalism, joining SMU in 2022. She is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries and a past-president of the AWMI Pittsburgh Chapter. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She can be reached at laura@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7869.