Mon Valley, Georgetown furnaces back up
Two US steel mill melt shop operations that suffered unplanned outages in recent weeks are back up and running.
US Steel's Blast Furnace #1 at its Mon Valley Works' Edgar Thomson Plant near Pittsburgh resumed operations 19 April after repairs to its top charging equipment, the company said. The furnace suffered an outage on 8 April.
Blast Furnace #1 is one of two blast furnaces at Mon Valley Works, which can produce 2.9mn st/year of raw steel.
The melt operation at Liberty Steel's Georgetown, South Carolina, wire rod mill resumed operations today after its electric arc-furnace (EAF) suffered a fire on 13 April.
The wire rod rolling mill can produce 680,000 t/yr. The mill consumes an estimated 30,000 gt/month of ferrous scrap.
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