Steel Mills
November 26, 2019
Stelco’s Pig Iron Plan Gets High Marks from the Market
Written by Tim Triplett
Stelco’s strategy to get into the merchant pig iron (MPI) market is getting high marks from the experts.
As one of the Canadian steelmaker’s strategic growth initiatives, it plans to construct a new pig iron making facility at its Lake Erie Works to coincide with a blast furnace reline scheduled for Q2 2020. Stelco claims to have a customer commitment for a “meaningful portion of the first two year’s output.” When completed, the facility will have an annual production capacity of 1.0 million tons of pig iron.
