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Harsco Metals Division to Expand Services in Fos-sur-Mer, France
07/25/2011 - Harsco has been awarded two multi-year contracts in France that will expand its logistics and handling services to two leading steel industry customers in Fos-sur-Mer: ArcelorMittal and ASCOMETAL.
Harsco Corp. has been awarded two multi-year contracts in France that will expand its logistics and handling services to two leading steel industry customers and generate new revenues estimated at $10 million over their duration.
The first contract expands Harsco Metals' 30-year relationship with ArcelorMittal at its Fos-sur-Mer facility with the addition of new services for handling and packaging of finished products previously performed by a competitor. Harsco already performs handling and packaging at ArcelorMittal's Mardyck and Florange facilities, and sent an experienced site manager to Fos-sur-Mer to manage this new contract.
Work under the three-year contract is now underway, expanding Harsco's ongoing contract services that include lag management and metal recovery, briquetting and pelletizing of the mill's by-products for production re-use, and ship loading and unloading.
Under the second contract, Harsco is extending its expertise in steel mill materials handling, winning a five-year contract at the ASCOMETAL facility in Fos-sur-Mer, where Harsco also has a 30-year relationship.
The new contract expands Harsco's role to include onsite transport and loading for expedition of semi-finished materials throughout various mill operations. Work has also begun on this contract.
“At the ArcelorMittal site, winning this contract required strong quality control and committed management,” said Galdino J. Claro, Executive Vice President and Group CEO for Harsco Metals and Harsco Minerals. “Our willingness to bring an experienced site manager from the Dunkirk/Mardyck site to Fos-sur-Mer showed we can export best practices and immediately improve service.
“At the ASCOMETAL site, our agility, reliability and commitment to collaboration in delivering quality services during the worldwide downturn showed our customer we can excel under the toughest economic conditions,” continued Claro. “That collaborative spirit won us this new logistics contract.”
Harsco Corp. is a global solutions company serving major industries that are fundamental to worldwide infrastructure development and economic growth.
