Ground is Broken at ThyssenKrupp Site

Nov 2nd, 2007

ThyssenKrupp Steel USA, LLC, and ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA, LLC, today broke ground on the site of its $3.7 billion carbon and stainless steel processing facility in Calvert, Alabama. The groundbreaking marks the beginning of construction of the 3,500-acre plant.

"This is a tremendous day not only for the people of Mobile County, but also for the entire State of Alabama, and the United States," said Mayor Sam Jones. "This plant will have a positive impact here for generations to come."

The facility will include 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 capacities for high-quality end products of flat carbon steel. The facility will have an annual capacity of 4.1 million metric tons of carbon steel 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 also be 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 steel plant will provide ThyssenKrupp Mexinox in San Luis Potosi (Mexico) with its required pre-material (340,000 metric tons of hot band).

Once operational, the new facility will process carbon and stainless steel for high-value applications by manufacturers in the United States and throughout North America. The plant will serve industries including automotive, construction and household appliances.

Pictured from L to R: Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood, Mayor Jones, Senator Richard Shelby, Senator Jeff Sessions, Rep. Jo Bonner, Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG Dr. Ekkehard Schulz, Gov. Bob Riley, Chairman of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG Dr. Karl-Ulrich Koehler