SeverCorr's Lowndes County, Mississippi plant received its first 20-ton scrap shipment this week from local scrap supplier Columbus Scrap Metal.
Columbus Scrap president Gregg Rader told press, "We are honored to be the first to supply product to SeverCorr for this next phase of their production."
SeverCorr uses premium busheling, factory bundles, and shredded scrap in its manufacturing process.
The state-of-the-art plant, which will be the first scrap-based CSP mill to produce exposed automotive steel, is still under construction. SeverCorr's cold mill and pickling line came online earlier this year, and the company says that other production areas, including the hot mill and galvanizing line, will be brought into production in the third quarter as construction is completed.
Construction at the site began in October 2005. When completed, the plant will produce 1.5 million tons of high-quality steels a year for use in the automotive, building, agricultural, pipe & tube, and appliance industries.