ThyssenKrupp Steel USA to Open Sales Office in Troy
08/07/2008 - ThyssenKrupp Steel USA announces plans to open a new sales office in Troy, Mich., to serve North American manufacturers with products from its new state-of-the-art carbon steel processing facility currently under construction in Calvert, Ala.
ThyssenKrupp Steel USA, LLC has announced it will open a new sales office in Troy, Mich., to serve manufacturers in the United States and throughout North America with products from its new multi-billion-dollar, state-of-the-art carbon steel processing facility currently under construction in Calvert, Ala.
The company said the new office will staff an experienced team of the company’s sales, customer technical service, and technical engineering personnel who will provide high grade carbon steel products along with the technical support and expertise to help customers optimize their use.
“We will be working with and serving a number of different industries from this location,” said Bob Holt, Vice President of Marketing for ThyssenKrupp Steel USA. “Because a significant portion of the automotive industry’s purchasing, technical design and engineering activities take place in the Detroit area, it also has the advantage of being close to our automotive customers who are especially important to our future success. It will also enable us to begin building the long-term customer partnerships that ThyssenKrupp is known for worldwide.”
“We’ve built a great core team to staff this new office,” said Bob Soulliere, President and CEO of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA. “They’re going to hit the ground running to introduce ThyssenKrupp Steel’s business model, which over the last 100 years has been successfully based on customer partnerships, quality product, on-time delivery and exceptional technical support to customers in the North American steel market.”
The new Alabama facility is the cornerstone of ThyssenKrupp’s new NAFTA market strategy and an integral part of the company’s overall global market strategy. It will use advanced technology processes and equipment to make high quality, competitively priced carbon steel products. It will have an annual capacity of 4.1 million tonnes of carbon steel and produce a wide range of high-value products such as hot rolled and cold rolled sheets and coated products for use in industries such as automotive, pipe and tubing, service centers, construction and household appliance.
The new Alabama facility is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2010.
The ThyssenKrupp Group, based in Duesseldorf, Germany, is a global technology company that consists of five business segments: Steel, Stainless, Technologies, Elevator and Services. The company has annual sales of approximately €51.7 billion (US$68.7 billion) and employs over 191,000 employees in over 70 countries worldwide.
ThyssenKrupp Steel, based in Duisburg, Germany, is the holding company for the carbon steel activities of the Group. It is the largest single entity of ThyssenKrupp. Last year, it produced approximately 14 million tonnes of crude steel and generated sales of €13.2 billion (US$17.5 billion). This business segment is focused on high-quality carbon steel flat products and is one of the world’s leading producers, ranking second in Europe. The segment employs approximately 39,600 people. Its subsidiaries, which are active in processing, coating and steel services, include Rasselstein GmbH, the world’s largest tinplate production site in Andernach, Germany, and Duisburg-based ThyssenKrupp Tailored Blanks GmbH, a market and technology leader in laser-welded blanks for the auto industry.
ThyssenKrupp operations can be found in every state in the U.S. There are 70 ThyssenKrupp companies in more than 400 locations accounting for 25,000 employees and more than US$9.7 billion in annual sales. Through its predecessor companies, ThyssenKrupp has been part of the U.S. historical landscape for 170 years, dating back to 1837 when Alfred Krupp, founder of predecessor company Krupp, provided coin minting machine prototypes to the U.S.
