Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks () is a steel plant in

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in the district Nowa Huta. It is owned by ArcelorMittal Poland S.A. Oddział Kraków, a division of

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History

The plant, then named

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Steelworks, opened on July 22, 1954 in Nowa Huta, a communist utopian district built in 1949 near

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in the area formerly occupied by the village of Mogiła and surrounding farmland. In the 1970s, the plant employed around 40,000 people and produced almost 7 million tons of steel annually. In the 1980s, it was one of the most important centers of

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and was the site of a

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in 1988. In 1990, after the end of Communism in Poland, the factory was renamed after Tadeusz Sendzimir. In January 2005, the plant was acquired by

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, which merged into

. In 2020, the

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was permanently shut down.

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