Brazilian flat steel producer Usiminas will carry out planned maintenance work on the No3 blast furnace at its Ipatinga works, in the country's south-eastern Minas Gerais state, after the restart of the No1 unit in April.
The outage was decided for the replacement of the equipment's staves, and is scheduled to last 14 days starting sometime in July, the mill told Metal Bulletin on Friday March 9."This is a common stoppage and will not affect the company's ability to...