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Production at Thyssenkrupp’s high-end steel sites in Germany and France will halt from mid-December to year-end, affecting specialist steel manufacturing.
- Thyssenkrupp's steel subsidiary announced a pause in production at its Gelsenkirchen, western Germany and Isbergues, northern France sites until year-end.
- The sites are specialist operations that produce high-end steel, with the Gelsenkirchen specialist site and Isbergues specialist site described as specialist rather than mass-production plants.
- The pause runs through the end of the year, starting in mid-December as a temporary closure, the company said.
- The pause will halt output at production output from the two sites, stopping their specialist high-end steel supply during the stated pause period.
- Reported by Ina Fassbender, the story was originally published on doc.afp.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.
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