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    December 6, 2022

    Cliffs’ No 7 Blast Furnace Restarted at Indiana Harbor

    Written by Laura Miller

    The No. 7 blast furnace at Cleveland-Cliffs’ Indiana Harbor steelworks in East Chicago, Ind., has been restarted.

    A spokeswoman confirmed the restart to SMU in an email on Tuesday, Dec. 6.

    Last week, the Cleveland-based steelmaker said that it was in the process of restarting the furnace which had experienced a minor fire ahead of planned maintenance.

    The No. 7 BF has a daily ironmaking capacity of 11,500 tons per day and is the only active furnace at Indiana Harbor. Producing a range of hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and coated products, the mill has a steelmaking capacity of 5.5 million tons per year.

    By Laura Miller, Laura@SteelMarketUpdate.com

    Laura Miller

    Laura Miller is a reporter and editor for Steel Market Update. She has held a variety of positions within the steel industry since 2007, including reporting and editing for Steel Business Briefing/Platts, the Association for Iron and Steel Technology, and Kallanish Commodities, as well as marketing for what was then known as ThyssenKrupp Steel USA (now AM/NS Calvert). After a five-year hiatus working across other industries, she returned to steel in 2021 and has covered the flat rolled, tubular, and trade areas of the industry. She is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries and a past-president of the AWMI Pittsburgh Chapter. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She can be reached at laura@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7869.

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