A New Era Begins for Rebuilt Stelco Blast Furnace
10/14/2020 - Canada’s Stelco has completed the reline of its Ontario blast furnace and has begun producing hot metal, the company has announced.
“It is expected that the upgrades in our blast furnace will result in improved quality, increased hot metal production of up to 300,000 net tons per year, and a corresponding CA$30-per-net-ton reduction in costs to produce our steel coils,” the company said in a statement
Stelco began the upgrade and reline in mid-July, the first such project ever at the Lake Erie Works, it said. With the overhaul complete, it expects to operate the furnace for the next three or four decades, it said.
