ST. LOUIS — U.S. Steel will continue processing steel slabs at its Granite City facility in a reversal of a decision announced earlier this month.

The company said last week it would end delivery of slabs to Granite City in November and shift slab processing to its facilities in Indiana and Pennsylvania, where the steel slabs are produced.

But those plans are no more. "We are going to be shipping slabs to Granite City," Amanda Malkowski, spokesperson for U.S. Steel, said Friday.

The news is positive for the roughly 800 workers still employed at the facility as of this month.

There was already no steel production at the 130-year-old mill in Granite City. Its last blast furnace for steel production was indefinitely idled in 2023.

But workers continued to process steel slabs, including

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