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Happy to see this, as my grandfather retired from there and I toured it as a kid:

https://www.wsj.com/business/u-s-steel-to-restart-...

U.S. Steel plans to resume steelmaking at an Illinois plant where the Trump administration intervened last summer to keep production going.

The company stopped making steel at Granite City Works two years ago and had planned to further curtail operations before the administration blocked the move in September. It said it now sees signs of rising demand that justify restarting one of Granite City’s two blast furnaces early next year to produce molten iron for steel.

The deal with Nippon Steel is seeing renovations to other plants:
U.S. Steel also is expected to need the mill’s steelmaking capacity as some of its other mills undergo improvements promised by Nippon Steel 5401 1.87%increase; green up pointing triangle, the new owner of U.S. Steel.

“We are confident in our ability to safely and profitably operate the mill to meet 2026 demand,” said U.S. Steel Chief Executive David Burritt.

The company expects to add about 400 employees at Granite City to operate the blast furnace, raising the plant’s workforce to about 1,200, a person familiar with the matter said. The decision to restart the furnace wasn’t influenced by the Trump administration, the person said.

Steel demand has been weak for much of the past two years, reflecting struggles in the manufacturing and construction sectors.

Steel demand should tick up - potentially quite a lot - as the Navy starts building more ships in US yards.

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