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July 11, 2012
Kloeckner to Build Flat-Rolled Facility in Alabama
Kloeckner Metals, North America’s fourth-largest service center company, plans to build a new light-gauge flat-rolled processing facility in the Southeast. The new operation will be located just off U.S. 43 on the campus of ThyssenKrupp’s flat-rolled mill in Calvert, Ala.
The 100,000-square-foot facility will initially offer slitting, and will eventually expand its processes to include cut-to-length, blanking and multi-blanking. It is expected to employ 40.
“The focus of this facility will be threefold: growth of our traditional value-added flat-rolled business, entry into the value-added automotive processing business and toll-processing for the mill,” says Russ Delaney, president of the Flat-Rolled Group for Kloeckner Metals.
The newly constructed processing center can be expanded to over 400,000 square feet, if required. It will be the second Kloeckner Metals location in Alabama. Kloeckner currently operates a 78,000-square-foot general line service center in Bessemer, Ala., part of the company’s Heavy Carbon Group.
“This expansion in flat-rolled processing capabilities represents a continuation of Kloeckner Metals’ commitment to our customers in the region, as well as our overall strategy to meet the growing demand for processed flat-rolled products in the Southeast,” says CEO Bill Partalis.
The company expects the new facility to be fully operational by the third quarter of 2013. It is the first greenfield project started by Kloeckner, which was formed in 2011 through the combination of service center companies Macsteel and Namasco.
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