Essar Steel Algoma Incorporated (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) | production, steelworks

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This place keeps Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario alive because of the work it provides.

Now owned by India's Essar Group, Essar Steel Algoma has a capacity of 2.8 million tons per year. Primary steelmaking facilities include two blast furnaces, three coke batteries, two, 260 short ton basic oxygen furnaces, with two ladle metallurgy stations for refining and alloying. Algoma has a direct strip production complex manufactured by Danieli of Italy, which casts strip directly and then rolls it to finished strip in the range of 0.047 inches to 0.625 inches in thickness, and widths to 64 inches. Algoma also operates a hot strip mill, a plate mill, and a cold strip mill. Algoma also manufactures welded structural beams.

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