U.S. Steel will move processing from Metro East to Indiana and Pennsylvania

U.S. Steel confirmed that it will quit shipping steel slabs into Granite City in November — and instead process them in Indiana and Pennsylvania.

“This commercial decision allows U.S. Steel to maintain future flexibility, while maximizing our domestic production footprint,” the company said in a statement. “This option avoids challenging product mixes at each facility, impact on customer orders, and extensive cost inefficiencies.”

The newly acquired company’s acknowledgement on Monday confirms a union memo sent to local steelworkers late last week, which outlined there will be no layoffs at the Metro East steel mill. Instead, the roughly 900 remaining employees will “maintain the facility in case the situation changes and run ancillary facilities,” according to the company.

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