Project Overview
ThyssenKrupp is developing to building a $4.65 billion world class, state-of-the-art steel and stainless steel processing facility in Alabama. The facility is a cooperative effort between two ThyssenKrupp companies - ThyssenKrupp Steel USA and ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA.
The new steel and stainless steel facilies have been approved by the ThyssenKrupp AG Supervisory Board and are an important part of ThyssenKrupp’s NAFTA growth strategy.
The Facilities will begin operation in 2010 and when fully operational, create 2,700 jobs. View details of the selected site in Alabama.
The facilities 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.
Facility Layout
The Alabama facility includes a hot strip mill which will be used primarily to process slabs from 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. The cold rolling facility is 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.