# Stelco proceeds with blast furnace upgrade at Lake Erie Works

Stelco is upgrading and relining the blast furnace at its Lake Erie Works facility in Nanticoke, Ontario, expected to increase hot metal production by up to 300,000 net tons per annum and reduce costs by $30 per net ton. Hot metal production is expected early October 2020.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2020-09-14
- Where: Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada
- Starts operating: Oct 2020
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 300,000 net tons per annum
- Products: steel coils
- Sectors: [Steel and Metal Products](https://endata.com/sectors/steel-metal-products.md)

## Companies

- [Stelco](https://endata.com/companies/25295.md)

## Sources

- [newswire.ca](https://www.newswire.ca/fr/news-releases/stelco-provides-further-details-on-blast-furnace-upgrade-project-809288327.html), 2020-09-14: "We are pleased with the extremely hard work of our employees and contractors on this once in a generation project that we have undertaken in the middle of the global pandemic to create a best-in-class blast furnace at our Lake Erie Works facility."

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