Valdiserri has also had big problems relining two of Henry Ford's original blast furnaces.
What had murdered her was her mind, a madness factory full of blast furnaces and smokestacks.
Many of China's steelmakers looked for supplies on the open market to fill hungry blast furnaces.
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In the 1980s Ford was turning out 2.3 million tons with three blast furnaces and two electric furnaces.
ArcelorMittal cannot afford to keep the blast furnaces open, even in a mothballed state as they are now.
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It owned blast furnaces, rolling mills, hopper cars, barges, coal mines, ships, shipyards.
On top of their lower labour costs, the mini-mills' electric-arc furnaces are much cheaper to build than iron-ore blast furnaces.
Valdiserri cranks out 3 million tons today with only two blast furnaces.
In December, steelmakers suffered the doubling of the benchmark price of coking coal, which fuels the blast furnaces that turn iron into steel.
Even streamlined old companies had high labor costs and leaned on blast furnaces, which couldn't be shut off easily and, so, led to overproduction.
That's unfortunate, since in a postindustrial age human capital is supposed to be just as important as capital invested in blast furnaces and conveyor belts.
If ArcelorMittal agrees to find jobs for these workers at other facilities in exchange for being able to shut down the blast furnaces, both sides could be satisfied.
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Chairman Lakshmi Mittal over plans to shut two blast furnaces in Florange, France, threatening to nationalize the facility, and told Mr. Mittal he wasn't welcome in France anymore.
The talks come ahead of a deadline on Saturday which Mr Mittal gave the state to find a buyer for the two idled blast furnaces in Florange, a traditional steel town in north-eastern France.
In 2006 the steelmaker embarked on a massive investment and construction project to build blast furnaces to produce high-quality virgin steel for cars, ships and consumer durable goods for parent Hyundai Motor and other customers.
But in 2006, it embarked on a massive investment and construction project to build blast furnaces which use iron ore and coking coal to produce high-quality virgin steel for cars, ships and consumer durable goods.
The North American iron ore division produces iron ore pellets for use in blast furnaces as part of the steelmaking process, and currently has a rated annual production capacity of 27 million tons of iron ore.
In 2009, the company generated 29% of its revenue from selling steam coal to power plants, and 10% from sales of coking and pulverized coal that feeds the blast furnaces at steel mills and other metallurgical operations.
And as Jonathan Allum, a Japan strategist at KBC Financial Products, points out, it makes no sense for China to build much of this stuff since its competitive advantage is cheap labour, not cheap-to-run, depreciated blast furnaces like those in Japan.
The move provoked an angry reaction from the French government, which accused Arcelor Mittal of breaking a 2006 commitment to keep the blast furnaces running - a claim denied by the steel giant - and criticised the firm for refusing to sell off the site as a whole.
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