SUGAR LAND, TX--(MARKET WIRE)--Dec 3, 2008 -- Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- ArcelorMittal (NYSE:MT - News) (Luxembourg) has announced plans to extend a planned December 2008 maintenance shutdown at the company's Georgetown, South Carolina, steel minimill. In mid-October, 98 mill workers were laid off for three weeks during planned maintenance on the electric arc furnace; poor market conditions were cited for the layoffs. Again, the poor economic environment is wreaking havoc at the mill.
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