Following the October 8 fire at its Fos-sur-Mer plant in France, Luxembourg steelmaker ArcelorMittal announced that it had resumed steel production at its facility. The fire seriously damaged the steelmaking plant and led to an almost complete shutdown of production.
The first steel plate after the shutdown was produced on December 22 for the Greek customer. This slab was 6 meters long, 1,620 mm wide and 229 mm thick. Blast furnace No. 2 was put back into operation in mid-December, which allowed the steelmaking workshop to produce slabs, and the hot rolling mill was restarted to process these slabs into steel sheets and rolled products.
Production at the facility was initially reduced, and then almost completely stopped after the fire, until reconstruction and restart allowed it to return to normal operations.
The Fos-sur-Mer plant, which produces a wide range of steel grades for automotive and industrial applications, employing about 2,500 employees and 1,200 subcontractors, remains one of France's most important integrated steel mills
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