Liberty Steel Group will temporarily idle blast furnace (BF) No2 at its plant in Ostrava in the Czech Republic at the end of April due to the drop in demand resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the company said on Thursday April 16.
"This will allow Liberty Ostrava to better adapt to the significant slowdown in the European steel market, by reducing hot metal production by 20% and [with] more efficient management of inventories," the steelmaker said."Liberty Ostrava can fully leverage its flexibility in the current environment," the chief...