During a ceremony Friday, JSW executives and Texas officials gathered to mark the start of work on the project, through which JSW USA will overhaul its existing plate mill and install a new hot end.  

“The groundbreaking … JSW USA’s Baytown, Texas, facility is the culmination of over three years of hard work with engineers from JSW and international engineering teams from the finest suppliers of the most technologically-advanced steel equipment manufacturers in the world,” JSW USA president and chief executive John Hritz said in a statement. 

“The electric arc furnace and slab caster that we have broken ground for will be the most eco-friendly steelmaking melt shop in North America that will feed directly into the soon-to-be-revitalized plate mill of the future with a contiguous pipe mill, creating hundreds of new jobs for decades to come,” he added. 

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