Blast furnace shutdown in Oxelösund
SSAB has today decided to shut down blast furnace operations at SSAB Special Steels’mill in Oxelösund. The outage is unplanned and expected to last for two weeks.The decision to shut down was made after unusually high temperatures in the mantle of the blast furnace. This will be further investigated. The blast furnace was fully refurbished as recently as 2011, with additional work completed in 2016 and was thus fitted out to last until the conversion to electric arc furnace in 2025. Necessary measures are estimated to take around two weeks, followed by the restart of the furnace. The