A program of blast furnace outages in the US, mostly in the fourth quarter, by some of the country's largest steelmakers could have an impact on fourth-quarter ferroalloys demand, according to traders, but for now, most of the alloy prices are stable, or drifting slightly.rnLast week, sources at one of the country's largest integrated steel producers, US Steel, said that it would be taking some 200,000 st of crude steel production offline from mid-October until almost the end of the year to carry out maintenance on three blast furnaces. The affected furnaces are Gary Works No. 6 for 26 days in November; Granite City's B blast furnace for 15 days, starting October 16; and Mon Valley's No. 1 blast furnace for 14 days, beginning October 13.rnElsewhere, sources at Wheeling-Pittsburgh, which operates both a blast furnace and an electric arc furnace, said that its No. 5 blast furnace would be down for 30 days, starting August 15. Its electric-arc furnace will continue producing during the period, according to the sources.
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