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Qatar Steel halts production at old EAFs, slashes merchant billet capacity
Qatar Steel (Qasco) has stopped production at its oldest electric arc furnaces nos. 1 and 2 until further notice, following a preventive maintenance and warranty shut-down programme completed in 2014, the steelmaker tells Kallanish.
The company announced in 2013 it planned to decommission these furnaces this year following the launch of its new 1.1 million tonnes/year EAF No. 5 in January 2014. The old units have a combined melting capacity of 600,000 t/y. T…
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