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The United States Steel company announced plans to sell two blast furnaces at Granite City Works to a raw materials handling company. About 1,000 jobs would be eliminated. Here’s what we know
News broke Wednesday that United States Steel plans to sell its two blast furnaces at Granite City Works to SunCoke Energy, Inc.. If the sale goes through, it could cost the region approximately ...
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Blast furnace and iron production idled December 2019. [5] Automotive finishing lines remain open as of 2024. [9] Granite City Works Granite City, Illinois: US Steel: Resumed operation 2018 [10] Idled indefinitely in 2023. [11] Fairfield Works Fairfield, Alabama: US Steel: Blast furnace closed permanently in August 2015. [12]
U.S. Steel acquired National Steel Corporation in May 2003 for $850 million and assumption of $200 million in debt. U.S. Steel operates Great Lakes Works [117] in Ecorse, Michigan, Midwest Plant in Portage, Indiana, and Granite City Steel in Granite City, Illinois. In 2008 a major expansion of Granite City was announced, including a new coke ...
Blast furnaces — which made pig iron (or sometimes finished cast iron goods) from iron ore; Bloomeries — where bar iron was produced from iron ore by direct reduction; Electrolytic smelting — Employs a chromium /iron anode that can survive a 2,850 °F (1,570 °C) to produce decarbonized iron and 2/3 of a ton of industrial-quality oxygen ...
Chrusciel, 61, is one of around 500 workers United States Steel Corp (X.N) is re-hiring or recruiting as it readies for production in mid-June at a blast furnace it idled in 2015.
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