Vale begins construction on steel mill in north Brazil

Wednesday, 23 June 2010 01:52:15 (GMT+2)

A portion of the slabs will be allocated to a joint-venture rolling mill with Aco Cearense, enabling production of approximately 710,000 hot rolled, cold rolled, and galvanized products annually.

Last week Vale announced a joint venture with German-based ThyssenKrupp for ThyssenKrupp CSA Siderúrgica do Atlântico, the largest private investment undertaken in Brazil in the last 15 years.  Vale is responsible for supplying the iron ore to be used by the steel mill complex, through a 15-year contract signed with ThyssenKrupp. This is the longest contract ever signed by the mining company.

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