Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks

Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks (Polish: Huta im. T. Sendzimira) is a steel plant the Nowa Huta district of Kraków, Poland. It is owned by ArcelorMittal Poland S.A. Oddział Kraków, a division of ArcelorMittal.

History

The plant, then named Vladimir Lenin Steelworks, opened on July 22, 1954 in Nowa Huta, a communist utopian district built in 1949 near Kraków in the area formerly occupied by the village of Mogiła and surrounding farmland.[1]

In the 1970s, the plant employed around 40,000 people and produced almost 7 million tons of steel annually.[2]

In the 1980s, it was one of the most important centers of Solidarity and was the site of a strike action in 1988.[3]

In 1990, after the end of Communism in Poland, the factory was renamed after Polish engineer Tadeusz Sendzimir, a pioneer of steelmaking technology.

In January 2005, the plant was acquired by Mittal Steel Company, which merged into ArcelorMittal.

In 2020, the blast furnace was permanently shut down.[4]

References

  1. ^ Marques, Omar (September 12, 2019). "In pictures: A city of the future, from a time now past". Politico.
  2. ^ Szyndzielorz, Julia (17 December 2017). "Kraków's Lenin Steelworks: a rare view of a socialist realist gem". The Guardian.
  3. ^ Wierzbicki, Paweł (2012). "Kalendarium wydarzeń strajkowych w Kombinacie Metalurgicznym Huta im. Lenina wiosną i latem 1988 roku" [Calendar of events for the strike at the Vladimir Lenin steelworks] – via Central and Eastern European Online Library.
  4. ^ Easton, Adam (8 October 2020). "ArcelorMittal to permanently close Krakow furnace and steel plant in Poland". S&P Global.

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