Severstal accelerating Columbus plant expansion
COLUMBUS — Severstal North America (SNA) has successfully completed the sale of its Warren, OH, Wheeling, W.V., and Sparrows Point, Md., assets to the Renco Group Inc. The sale of these assets is a key...
View ArticleOSHA cites Quality Steel following fatality
CLEVELAND — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed penalties of $46,935 for Quality Steel Corp. in Cleveland where a worked died in 2010 in a forklift accident. OSHA said in a...
View ArticleCounty approves loan for steel plant upgrades
LOWNDES COUNTY — Lowndes County has approved a $250,000 loan for Mississippi Steel Processing and New Process Steel to continue infrastructure improvements at the county’s industrial park. The county...
View ArticleSteel Service shuttering Batesville plant
BATESVILLE — Steel Service Corporation is closing its Batesville facility. Company officials say the Batesville operations will be consolidated at its Jackson plant, where the company is headquartered....
View ArticleDennen Steel breaks ground for new plant
IUKA — Dennen Steel Corp., a contract stamping manufacturer of steel products, has broken ground for construction of a new 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at Yellow Creek Port in Iuka. The...
View ArticleSteel-making plant officially opens in Tenn-Tom port
IUKA — Dennen Steel Corp. has opened its new manufacturing facility in the northeastern corner of Mississippi. Gov. Phil Bryant was among those attending a ceremony yesterday at the 50,000-square-foot...
View ArticleUniversity, steelmaker strike new R&D partnership
STARKVILLE —Mississippi State University and steelmaker Severstal North America (SNA) has established a research partnership aimed at helping grow the region’s high-tech manufacturing economy and...
View ArticleSeverstal making large investment in steel mills
COLUMBUS — Severstal will invest $1.3 billion in its steel and mining operations worldwide with $43 million set aside for its rolled steel mill in Columbus. The company says in a news release that...
View ArticleManufacturer unveils $11M expansion; adding jobs
NATCHEZ — Enerfab is expanding operations at its Natchez location, which is known as Enersteel, to accommodate an increase in tank head production, according to the Mississippi Development Authority...
View ArticleIllinois company buys another facility in Columbus
COLUMBUS — Agracel Inc., an industrial development firm headquartered in Effingham, Ill., has purchased of the 137,700-square-foot Mississippi Steel Processing (MSP) operation in Columbus. The facility...
View ArticleBuilding materials prices go in opposite directions
Up and down While the cost of some materials has risen, others have decreased over the past three months. Here is breakdown of prices: » Following an 8.2 percent drop in May, softwood lumber prices...
View ArticleSupervisors award infrastructure contracts for steel plant expansion
COLUMBUS — Lowndes County supervisors have awarded contracts for an access road, rail spur and loading pad portions of the expansion for the local Mississippi Steel Processing plant. The Commercial...
View ArticleEnerfab unveils plans for yet another expansion
NATCHEZ — Enerfab Inc. plans a second expansion in less than a year at its Enersteel operation in Natchez. The $10-million investment, announced yesterday, is projected to create at least 45 jobs,...
View ArticleSteel processor to site plant in Attala County
KOSCIUSKO — Attala Steel Industries is unveiling a new facility. The $5-million galvanizing facility will allow the company to coat steel, in addition to the steel processing it already does at the...
View ArticleSteel-maker gets check for $2.5M for energy efficiencies
COLUMBUS — The Tennessee Valley Authority, along with Gov. Phil Bryant, presented a check yesterday for more than $2.5 million to Severstal North America for achieving energy efficiencies at its...
View ArticleSeverstal selling plants, including Severstal Columbus
COLUMBUS — Russian steel company Severstal is exiting the U.S. market, selling a pair of steel plants to AK Steel and Steel Dynamics for about $2.33 billion. Word of a possible sale began to circulate...
View ArticleGreat River Industries moving headquarters to Natchez
NATCHEZ — Great River Industries, formerly known as Enersteel, is expanding its operations in Natchez by locating its corporate headquarters there and adding 12,000 square feet of manufacturing space....
View ArticleSeverstal-Columbus fined for faulty pollution-control system
COLUMBUS — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has fined Columbus steel mill Severstal $135,000 because the company’s pollution-control monitors didn’t function properly after the plant...
View ArticleSeverstal completes the sale of Columbus plant to Steel Dynamics
COLUMBUS — Russian steel company Severstal has completed its sale of a pair of steel plants to AK Steel and Steel Dynamics. In a statement from Severstal’s press office, CEO Alexey Mordashov confirmed...
View ArticleSenators push for protecting steel producers from imported rebar
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are supporting efforts that they say will ensure that U.S. steel producers in Mississippi and other states are protected...
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