Before starting the construction of the EDP, the existing steel mill building is again disassembled to the structural shell. Previously, the building housed one of the busiest sections of the plant, where up to five million tons of molten cast iron from two blast furnaces was desulfurized and turned into liquid steel using two large converters.
Decommissioning completed without incident
According to Chris Scurfield, the project's support engineer, the conversion work began immediately after the steel production shutdown in 2024. At the plant, the crews removed the fume hoods from the hot metal stations, railway tracks, industrial scales and two desulfurization stations, completing the work safely and without incident.
The cleared area will become a critical work area for the replacement and repair of refractories of future EDP buildings and steel casting ladles, which form an important part of the new steelmaking infrastructure.
