(€99 million) The decision to demolish all blast furnace at the site was made by Duferco in the late 1990s, with demolition taking place in the early 2000s

In 2006 Duferco formed a joint venture, "Steel Invest & Finance S.A.", (SIF) (Luxembourg) with NLMK (Russia) covering all its European and USA steel operations.At the time of the formation of the jv the works ("Duferco La Louvière S.A.") had hot and cold rolling and wire rod production facilities of 2, 1.6 and 0.36 million tons respectively pa, and employed 1508.