ThyssenKrupp Awards Site Exploration Contract
07/05/2007 - ThyssenKrupp Steel and Stainless USA has awarded a contract to Thompson Engineering of Mobile to conduct geotechnical testing in the site area of its $3.7-billion steel and stainless steel processing facility planned for Calvert, Ala.
ThyssenKrupp Steel and Stainless USA, LLC announced that it has awarded a contract to Thompson Engineering, Inc. of Mobile, Ala., to conduct geotechnical site testing for its $3.7-billion steel and stainless steel processing facility planned for Calvert, Ala.
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ThyssenKrupp’s new steel/stainless steel facility will have an annual capacity of 4.5 million tonnes of end products.
It will include a hot strip mill that will be used primarily to process slabs from the company’snew steel mill in Brazil. It will also include a stainless steel meltshop with an annual first-phase capacity of up to one million tonnes of slabs, which will be also processed on the hot strip mill.
The new U.S. plant will also feature cold rolling and hot-dip coating capacity for high-quality end products of flat carbon steel.
The cold rolling facility will be designed initially to produce 325,000 tonnes of cold strip and 100,000 tonnes of pickled hot strip.
The new plant complex is expected to begin operations in 2010. It is considered to be one of the largest private industrial development projects in the United States over the next decade.
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“We’re very excited to announce that this first contract was awarded to an Alabama-based company,” said Bob Soulliere, CEO of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA, LLC. “We are committed to using local contractors and suppliers to the extent possible.”
Uli Albrecht-Frueh, CEO of ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA, LLC, added, “The tests that will be conducted over the coming months will allow us to construct our state-of-the-art facility at the high standards that we insist upon. We are confident that Thompson Engineering is the right firm to lead this work.”
ThyssenKrupp’s new plant complex, which will process carbon steel and stainless steel for high-value applications, is scheduled to begin operations in 2010. Construction is expected to begin by the end of this year.
Based in Mobile, Thompson Engineering is an engineering design, environmental, land planning, construction inspection and materials testing firm. Its services include surveying, exploration, investigation, specialized testing, design, construction management and quality assurance inspection.
Based in Duesseldorf, Germany, The ThyssenKrupp Group is a global technology company that consists of five business segments: Steel, Stainless, Technologies, Elevator and Services. The company has annual sales of approximately €47 billion (US$61 billion) and employs 188,000 employees in over 70 countries worldwide.
Based in Duisburg, Germany, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG is the holding company for the Group’s carbon steel activities. It is the Group’s largest single entity, producing approximately 14 million tonnes of crude steel and generating sales of €10.7 billion (US$14 billion). This business segment is focused on high-quality carbon steel flat products and is one the world’s leading producers, ranking second in Europe. The segment employs over 30,000 people, and its subsidiaries are active in processing, coating and steel services. Subsidiaries include Rasselstein GmbH, the world’s largest tinplate production site in Andernach, Germany, and Duisburg-based ThyssenKrupp Tailored Blanks GmbH, a world market and technology leader in laser-welded blanks for the auto industry.
Also based in Duisburg, Germany, ThyssenKrupp Stainless AG is the holding company for the Group’s stainless activities. It has achieved leading market positions worldwide in stainless steel flat-rolled products, nickel alloys and titanium. With annual sales of €6.4 billion (US$8.3 billion), the segment employs 12,200 employees in Germany, Italy, China, Mexico and the U.S.
