News Room - Steel Industry

Posted on 23 Mar 2015

US Steel to invest new furnaces, tube plant in Alabama

US Steel announced that the company will invest two projects with US$277.5 million, including an electric arc furnace to compliment an existing steel mill in Fairfield.

Besides, it will build a pipe factory at the same steel mill in order to supply for the oil and gas industry.

The new furnace is expected to start the construction in the second quarter this year and expected to be completed in the third quarter this year.

In the meantime, the new pipe plant is expected to start in the second quarter of this year and it is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2016.