Final Thoughts
February 8, 2017
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
The Nucor Louisiana DRI plant is down for 4-5 weeks according to information just received by SMU from Nucor spokesperson Katherine Miller. Here is what she told us: “We recently had an equipment failure that has temporarily stopped production at our Louisiana DRI plant. Due to the nature of the DRI process and the cooling time required to examine the equipment, we do estimate that it will take 4-5 weeks to make the necessary repairs. Our Trinidad DRI faculty continues to operate at full capacity and we anticipate no disruptions in our raw material pipeline. This stoppage is also not expected to disrupt production at any of Nucor’s steel mills, nor impact our 180 teammates who work at the facility.”
One of our sources who has contacts close to the plant advised is that the outage is “no big deal.” We will report more once we have a better understanding of the issues with the facility.
