Interviewed on Radio Euskadi’s “Ganbara” programme, Arcelor Mittal spokesman Alberto Carrero announced that work will be done “when the impact is less”. On Tuesday, production has been stopped from 07:00 to 24:00.
the plant of ArcelorMittal in Olaberria (Gipuzkoa) has stopped production this tuesday from 07:00 hours until at least the next midnight, due to the cost of the electric power. This Wednesday they will return to work, although only for a few hours.
Last October, the multinational steel company already warned that Olaberria’s was one of those that could be affected by the “selective and short” stops of production that the group decided to carry out in its electric steel mills for long products in Europe, due to the rise in the price of energy electrical.
The decision affects Arcelor Mittal Europe Long Products and is motivated by the “excessive” escalation in electricity prices. This leads him to carry out selective and short production stops depending on the time slots in which the cost of electricity is higher in each of the countries. This measure has already been applied in some of its plants, after daily monitoring of prices.
As reported at the end of last year, the plants that were going to be affected are electric steel mills for long products and in the Basque Country the only one existing is the one in Olaberria, which has a workforce of around 410 people.
Interviewed on Radio Euskadi’s ‘Ganbara’ program, the Arcelor Mittal spokesman, Alberto Carreroannounced this afternoon that work will be done on Wednesday “according to time slots when the impact is less”.
Carrero recalled that electro-intensive consumers “have been denouncing the situation for some time.” “This is not a situation of the last week but of months”, he has insisted. “The situation is frankly unsustainable and cannot be endured,” he concluded.
On the other hand, regarding the Sestao ACB, Carrero explained that the plant is in a scheduled shutdown and that it would have to work again on Sunday, March 13, “but the situation is being evaluated.”
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The Minister of Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment, Arantxa Tapiahas ensured that both the Basque Country and the European Union are in a energy emergency situation caused by the war, which requires “extraordinary and forceful” measures by the EU because, if the current escalation in prices continues, electro-intensive companies will be “doomed to stop”.
Source: Eitb
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