“Our ‘B’ restart occurred last week when we resumed steelmaking, which included 500 jobs,” a spokeswoman told AIST’s Steel News. American Metal Market first reported the development on Tuesday. 

U. S. Steel announced in March that it would restart the B furnace and associated steelmaking operations as a result of expected demand arising from the Section 232 tariffs. In a follow-on announcement earlier this month, the company said it plans to restart Granite City’s A furnace this fall.

A spokeswoman said the company is looking to restart that furnace sometime around 1 October. Each of the furnaces has a nameplate capacity of 1.2 million tons annually, according to AIST records.