Birmingham Steel Corporation
operates non-union mini-mills that produce steel and steel products on a low-cost basis. The company produces steel reinforcing bar (rebar) used in the construction industry and rounds, squares, flats, angles, channel and strip - also know as merchant products - which are sold to fabricators and other merchants. The company specializes in the manufacture of high quality steel bar, rod and wire from semi-finished billets as its Cleveland operation, which is recognized as one of the highest quality steel bar and rod producers in North America.
Birmingham Steel is putting the pieces in place to carry out its long-term growth strategy. This strategy is to enhance market position in each of ...
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depots in Baltimore, Maryland, and Oakland and Fontana, California; and a steel scrap recycling and processing facility in Jackson, Mississippi. The company operates two high quality bar, rod, and wire production facilities in Cleveland, Ohio.
Through its subsidiary, Birmingham Southeast, LLC, the company specializes in producing merchant products at facilities in Cartersville, Georgia, and Jackson, Mississippi. Birmingham Steel also owns fifty percent of three joint venture companies: American Iron Reduction, LLC, which is construction a direct reduced iron facility; and Pacific Coast Recycling, LLC, and Richmond Steel Recycling, Ltd., which collect, process, and sell scrap in southern California, Vancouver, and British Columbia, respectively.
Fiscal 1997 was a pivotal year for . The company set several operation milestones during the year, including record sales, shipments, and production. The company's mini-mills demonstrated exceptional operating performance, as the ...
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with the quality of billets received, excessive billet inventories and ongoing outside storage costs were discovered. They have taken definitive steps to resolve these issues and expect this operation will return to profitability early in fiscal 1998.
The existing mini-mills performed admirably during the year, both operationally and financially. Seattle, in particular, displayed much improved performance since the ramp-up of its new melt shop in 1996, and achieved record low conversion costs in both the melt shop and rolling mill. Low average conversion costs of just over $100 per ton were also achieved at Kankakee and Birmingham during the year. At year-end average productivity at the ...
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