More European steel mills cut output, AM Bremen idles a blast furnace

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London—More European steel mills announced Friday they are ramping down production as a direct consequence of decreased demand and further restrictions on public life in Europe, with ArcelorMittal Bremen idling a blast furnace. ArcelorMittal Germany gave more detail Friday on its decreased output in Germany and said that it had idled one of its two blast furnaces at the flat steel plant in Bremen. The now idled BF had just been restarted in the beginning of January. The annual capacity of the plant is 3.6 million mt of crude steel. The steelmaker also slowed down production at its coking plant Bottrop and reduced working hours at its Eisenhuettenstadt flat steel operations.