ArcelorMittal plans to temporarily idle the second blast furnace (BF) and coking plant at its Fos-sur-Mer flat steel plant in France due to the economic downturn resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the company told Fastmarkets on Wednesday April 22.
The hot idling of the equipment will "take a few weeks," the company said.The company will restart operations only when three conditions are met, it said....