CAPACITY WATCH: Japan's Nippon Steel to halt 3rd blast furnace

Japan's Nippon Steel will halt a third blast furnace due to an "immediate sharp drop in demand for steel products" caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, it said.

Company: Nippon Steel
Location: Kimitsu, Chiba prefecture
Equipment: No2 blast furnace (BF), coke ovens
Date: From mid-May

The 8-million-tonnes-per-year Kimitsu steel works has...

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