Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks

A sign, located near the main gate

Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks (Polish: Huta im. T. Sendzimira) is a steel plant in 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 Tadeusz Sendzimir.

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.

External links

• Official website

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