Harsco Corp.’s MultiServ mill services division has been awarded multi-year contracts for additional outsourced services at two major steel mills in Belgium and Mexico.

In Belgium, MultiServ will add on-site scrap oxycutting to its range of services at Arcelor's all-new Carinox meltshop, the regional hub of Arcelor's stainless steel operations. The ten-year contract is patterned after similar MultiServ operations at three other Arcelor sites, and will include Harsco investments in a state-of-the-art fume collection system and mobile soundproof cutting hood. The new contract adds to MultiServ's service responsibilities at the Carinox site, where MultiServ also holds previously announced ten-year contracts to provide comprehensive scrapyard management, liquid slag pot carrying, and slab management services. The Carinox facility is scheduled to become operational later this year

In Mexico, MultiServ will add oxycutting to a renewal of its ongoing services at the Grupo Simec works in Apizaco, Mexico, where MultiServ has been providing services since 1993. The new contract carries a three-year term with automatic renewal. The contract is MultiServ's first with the mill's new owners, Industrias CH (ICH) and its Grupo
Simec subsidiary, which acquired the Apizaco mill from Spanish steelmaker Sidenor last year. ICH and Grupo Simec operate three other mills in Mexico where additional outsourcing opportunities may also emerge, as ICH has announced new investments earlier this year to increase the group's overall steel production by up to 13%.

The two new contracts are projected to generate combined new revenues of more than $10 million over their duration.

Harsco's MultiServ division provides the world's leading steel companies with a comprehensive range of on-site services that support the entire steelmaking process, including integrated materials handling, semi-finished and finished product management, and by-product recovery and recycling. The division operates at more than 160 mills in over 30 countries, making MultiServ the world's single largest provider of on-site, outsourced mill services to the steel and metals industries.

Harsco Corp. is a $2.5 billion diversified industrial services and engineered products company whose market-leading businesses provide mill services, access services, gas containment and control technologies, and engineered products and services to customers worldwide. The company employs 18,500 people in more than 40 countries
of operation.