Roswell, Georgia-based steel distributor Kloeckner Metals announced that it will build a light gauge flat rolled processing center on a greenfield site in Calvert, Alabama. The facility will be located on-campus with ThyssenKrupp USA's carbon flat rolled mill. 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. The company currently operates a 78,000 square foot general line service center in Bessemer, Alabama, part of the company's Heavy Carbon Group.
The 100,000 square-foot service center will initially offer slitting and will eventually expand its processes to include cut-to-length, blanking and multi-blanking. Along with construction, Kloeckner will focus on developing a first-rate workforce to operate the facility, which will require approximately 40 people.
"The focus of this facility will be three-fold: growth of our traditional value-added flat-rolled business, entry into the value-added automotive processing business and toll-processing for the mill," said Russ Delaney, President of the Flat Rolled Group for Kloeckner Metals.
Bill Partalis, Chief Executive Officer of Kloeckner Metals said: "It is our intention to be fully operational by the third quarter of 2013."