Severstal Columbus Adds Campus Partners to Expand Services
08/06/2010 - Severstal Columbus LLC welcomes two new downstream campus partners to its Lowndes County facility. Mississippi Steel Processing and New Process Steel are constructing facilities that will each begin operation late in the first quarter of 2011.
Severstal Columbus LLC has welcomed two new downstream campus partners to its Lowndes County facility to expand its range of services to light flat rolled steel consumers.
James Hrusovsky, Chief Executive Officer of Severstal Columbus, said that the location of Mississippi Steel Processing and New Process Steel on Severstal’s campus “further strengthens the position of Severstal Columbus as the premier steel maker in the southern United States.”
The addition of two campus partners has been part of OAO Severstal’s long-term vision for the greenfield electric-arc furnace plant. “From the very beginning, we…envisioned a facility that would eventually become more than just a steel plant to provide a multitude of services to our customers. Mississippi Steel Processing and New Process Steel put us well on the road toward achieving that vision,” said Hrusovsky.
Mississippi Steel Processing and New Process Steel are constructing facilities that will offer downstream services to Severstal Columbus’s customers as well as customers of other steel companies. Each will begin operation late in the first quarter of 2011.
Mississippi Steel Processing is a toll processor that will provide value-added services of leveling, slitting, storing, logistics, and fabricating of light flat rolled steel products including those of heavier gauge. Logistical services include managing delivery via truck, rail, and barge as well as warehousing. Steel will be processed from Severstal Columbus as well as other steel companies.
Its new facility will consist of 136,000 square feet of floor space expandable to 300,000 square feet over the next five years.
New Process Steel is locating onsite to service the lighter range of carbon and coated flat-rolled steel products. Its services will include slitting, stamping, sheeting, warehousing, and fabricating of products. New Process Steel works with galvanized, Galvalume, aluminized, and prepainted products.
New Process Steel will begin operations in a 66,000−square-foot facility that can be increased fourfold. New Process Steel, currently headquartered in Houston, Tex., has other service centers in Texas, Illinois, Indiana, and Alabama as well as in Mexico.
Work is also continuing on the expansion of Severstal Columbus, which will double the plant’s crude steel capacity to 3.4 million tons, matching Columbus’s hot strip mill capacity and allowing the plant to achieve greater economies of scale.
The project includes a second electric arc furnace complex with a ladle metallurgy facility, vacuum degasser expansion, a second thin strip caster, a second shuttle-type tunnel furnace, and a second downcoiler at the hot mill. The finishing side expansion will feature the addition of a fourth pickle tank to the existing continuous pickle line/tandem mill, additional hydrogen batch annealing bases and furnaces, a push/pull pickle line, and a second galvanizing line.
Anticipated completion is in late 2011 through 2012.
Severstal North America is the fourth largest steelmaker in the United States and specializes in the full range of light flat rolled products. Fully integrated operations are located in Michigan, Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia. A new state-of-the-art electric arc furnace operation in Mississippi serves the growing demand for steel in the southeastern United States.
Severstal International is an operating division of OAO Severstal comprising the North American and European segments.
OAO Severstal is an international steel and mining company with a listing on the Russian Trading System, Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, and the London Stock Exchange. The company operates high-quality assets in Russia, North America, and Europe.
