Home Brazil's Usiminas to stop Ipatinga No3 blast furnace for maintenance in July Brazilian flat steel producer Usiminas will carry out planned maintenance work on the No3 blast furnace at its Ipatinga works, in the country’s south-eastern Minas Gerais state, after the restart of the No1 unit in April. The outage was decided for the replacement of the equipment’s staves, and is scheduled to last 14 days starting sometime in July, the mill told Metal Bulletin on Friday March 9. “This is a common stoppage and will not affect the company’s... Email this article Your details Please enter your name Please enter your email address Please enter your email address Your recipients's details Please enter at least one recipients email address Please enter valid email address You can enter a maximum of 5 recipients. You can enter a maximum of 5 recipients. Use ; to separate email addresses. Please enter at least one recipients name Email yourself a copy? Enter the code: Ok You might notice something different here.As we continue our evolution, our data and market news is now available through the Fastmarkets platform and a trial of this website is no longer available. Already registered? Log in Our new delivery solution allows you to access the prices and news that matters most to you in a way that delivers value, quality and a unique, fully customizable view for you. Learn More We are developing an experience that allows you to test drive building your view of our data and news on the new platform. In the meantime, we can prepare a quote for you and show you around. Get Started Contact Us +44 (0) 20 7779 8260 hello.mb@fastmarkets.com Published Ana Paula Camargo March 12, 2018 18:10 GMT São Paulo Keywords Brazil maintenance work steel production Related news {{article|snippet:'title'|removeHtmlTags}} {{article|fields:'dates'|date:dateArticleFormat}}