Brazilian steel producer Gerdau will carry out two months of planned maintenance work on the No2 blast furnace at its Ouro Branco works, in the country's south-eastern Minas Gerais state, beginning in the next few weeks.
The outage was decided for the improvement of the equipment's condition, and is scheduled to last around 60 days starting some time in late March or early April, a representative of the local trade union,...