“After many successful projects in the USA during the last years, MINO has decided to open a corporation to better serve the ever more important North American market and to take advantage of the further growth in the metal sector that is expected to occur there in the near future,” the company said in a statement.

“The newly established company will support MINO’s activity in the North American market, with a broad spectrum of services, ranging from the support to MINO’s commercial activity in the USA, to the sale of spares and the supply of technical services in connection with rolling equipment and process,” it added.

Nigel Blackmore has been named chief executive of the subsidiary, and Ian Hoyland, who served as MINO’s U.S. area manager for the last five years with outstanding results, has been named director.

“Both of them having more than 30 years of experience in the field of metals, will manage MINO USA Corp. with the aim of developing further MINO’s market and its reputation of reliable rolling mill supplier in the U.S.,” the company said.