Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks

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Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks is a steel plant in the Nowa Huta district of Kraków, Poland. It is owned by ArcelorMittal Poland S.A. Oddział Kraków, a division of ArcelorMittal. The plant opened on July 22, 1954 and was then named Vladimir Lenin Steelworks. It was built in Nowa Huta, a planned socialist district started in 1949 near Kraków on land that used to be part of the village of Mogiła. In the 1970s about 40,000 people worked there and it produced almost 7 million tons of steel each year. In the 1980s it became an important center of the Solidarity movement and experienced a strike in 1988. After communism ended in Poland, in 1990 the factory was renamed after Polish engineer Tadeusz Sendzimir, a pioneer of steelmaking technology. In January 2005 it was bought by Mittal Steel Company, which later merged into ArcelorMittal. In 2020 the blast furnace was permanently shut down. Location coordinates: 50°04′44″N 20°05′54″E (50.07889°N, 20.09833°E).