Project Overview
ThyssenKrupp is committed to building a $3.7 billion world class, state-of-the-art steel and stainless steel processing facility in the state of Alabama. The facility will be a cooperative effort between two ThyssenKrupp segments - Steel and Stainless.
The new steel and stainless steel facility has been approved by the ThyssenKrupp AG Supervisory Board and is an important part of ThyssenKrupp’s NAFTA growth strategy.
The plant is expected to begin operation in 2010, and when fully operational, create 2,700 jobs. View details of the selected site in Alabama.
The facility will manufacture and process carbon steel and stainless steel for high-value applications by manufacturers in the United States and throughout North America. The plant will serve industries including automotive, packaging, construction, electrical and utility, in addition to serving manufacturers of appliances, precision machinery and engineered products.
Proposed Facility Layout
The Alabama facility will include a hot strip mill which will be used primarily to process slabs from the ThyssenKrupp’s new steel plant in Brazil. It will also feature cold rolling and hot-dip coating capacity for high-quality end products of flat carbon steel. The facility will have an annual capacity of 4.1 million metric tons of end products. In addition, a stainless steel melt shop will be built with an annual capacity of up to one million metric tons of slabs, which will be also processed on the hot strip mill. A cold rolling facility is to be built, which will be designed initially to produce 350,000 tons of cold strip and 125,000 tons of pickled hot strip. In addition, the stainless plant will provide ThyssenKrupp Mexinox in San Luis Potosí (Mexico) with its required pre-material (340,000 metric tons of hot band).
ThyssenKrupp intends this new facility to be a model for 21st century industry. It will use advanced technology processes and equipment to make high quality, competitively priced steel and stainless products.