Amsa continues to raise output despite power shortages

Johannesburg 30 July 2008 15:12

ArcelorMittal South Africa (Amsa) said production for the full-year 2008 will be around 6.5 million tonnes of crude steel up from 6.38 million tonnes in 2007 after the company carried out a number of upgrades and maintenance at its operations during the year. "Production will be about 6.5 milllion tonnes," said Amsa chief executive officer Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita on Wednesday. Kobus Verster executive director finance said that by the final quarter of the year Amsa's steel production would be just over 8 million tonnes on an annualised basis, with the company seeing production rise after having completed relines of furnaces at its Saldanha and Newcastle plants, as well as the...

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