Japan’s Nippon Steel Corporation is suspending operations at one of its blast furnaces in the Oita district for about two weeks, which is triggering supply disruption of 300,000 t of hot-rolled products used in the auto and shipbuilding industries. The restoration of BF 1 at Oita is underway and operations are expected to resume soon. BF 2 is also expected to return to normal operational levels in Jan’22.
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