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    USS Planned Outage Underway at Mon Valley’s No. 3, Could Stay Idled

    Written by David Schollaert


    US Steel’s month-long outage on No. 3 blast furnace at Mon Valley Works near Pittsburgh is underway, a company spokeswoman confirmed to SMU.

    US SteelThe blast furnace was taken offline early Wednesday morning following a successful blowdown. Water quenching is scheduled for the weekend, and shotcrete will begin after Labor Day.

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