By the end of 2023, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih plans to spend $700 million in steel making upgrades that will clean the city’s air

By the end of 2023, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih plans to spend $700 million in steel making upgrades that will clean the city’s air, company CEO Mauro Longobardo told a group of environmental officials from Kyiv. Recently, the Dnipropetrovsk region steelmaker decommissioned its open-hearth shop. Upcoming: install a gas cleaning system in the converter shop, modernize blast furnace No. 9, modernize sinter shop No. 2, build a modern iron pelletizing plant, close two sinter shops and decommission two coke oven batteries. Ukraine’s largest foreign investment, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih is the nation’s largest manufacturer of rolled steel. It also makes rebar and wire rod.