The steel company Nucor Corp., Charlotte, North Carolina, has reported an equipment failure at its Nucor Steel Louisiana direct reduced iron (DRI) plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana. According to Nucor, the failure was related to the process gas heater, which experienced a major failure Nov. 2, 2014. There were no injuries, no environmental impact and no damage to any other part of the DRI facility as a result of the incident, according to the company.
Nucor says production operations were suspended after the failure and the company is assessing the extent of the equipment damage and cannot estimate the length of time needed to make the necessary repairs to the process gas heater.
The company says the gas heater is the same piece of equipment that contributed to production outages in July and September of this year.
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