Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of Arcelor-Mittal, visited, for the first time, the Liege steel basin since his takeover on Arcelor succeeded. He promised to think about the arguments brought forward by unions, which aim at reviving the activity of blast furnaces which had been condemned by Arcelor's former management. (Ref. 070194)
In 2003, Arcelor’s Apollo plan had condemned the Liege company’s blast furnaces to close permanently by 2009, thus endangering 2,700 jobs. For a few weeks, however, the debate on a revival of the heat phase has raised. It is in this context that Lakshmi Mittal visited, on February 28, the Liege site. “I did not promise that something would change in the enforcement of the Apollo plan, but I promised unions that I would think about the arguments they advanced as part of the steel sector’s new dy
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