Steel Mills
'Tis the season for fall maintenance outages
Written by Laura Miller
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
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