Steel Mills
February 11, 2017
US Steel Restarting Hot Mill at Granite City
Written by Sandy Williams
The US Steel Granite City hot strip mill is back in action as promised. US Steel has called 225 employees back to work to restart the facility’s idled hot mill.
For the present, only the hot mill will be restarted which reheats steel slabs, sourced from other US Steel mills, to process them into coil. Granite City has the capability to produce its own steel, from melting iron ore to the finished product, but will not resume steelmaking as of now. Granite City Works has an annual raw steelmaking capability of 2.8 million tons and two blast furnaces.
