WCI blast furnace slated to restart this week

Nov 28, 2007 | 03:17 PM | Maria Guzzo

The blast furnace at WCI Steel Inc. will be up and running later this week after a fire put it out of commission earlier this month.

"We began loading the blast furnace Sunday and we expect to produce production-quality iron later this week," Tim Roberts, WCI's public affairs manager, said. The remainder of the front end—the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) and caster—will begin production sequentially.....





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