ArcelorMittal predicts active 2026 for Alabama mill

Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal says its now wholly owned steelmaking campus in Calvert, Alabama, will expand its output and importance to the company’s operations in North America.

In a late July presentation to investors, Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal says its acquisition of the remaining 50 percent of the Calvert plant (undertaken as a condition of the merger between Nippon Steel Corp., or NSC, and United States Steel Corp.) bolsters its competitiveness in the strategically important U.S. market.

ArcelorMittal refers to the Calvert campus as “one of the most advanced steelmaking facilities in North America," complemented by a new state-of-the-art electric arc furnace (EAF).

That at least partially recycled steel-charged 1.5-million tons per year furnace is part of a larger operation that can roll and otherwise further process some 5.3 million tons of steel annually.

The EAF melt shop now has been commissioned, with the first slabs from the facility having been produced in June. The company says the furnace is ramping up and expects the EAF to reach full capacity in mid-2026.

In addition to rolling and finishing steel produced in the EAF, ArcelorMittal has signed a seven-year domestic slab supply agreement with the newly merged NSC/U.S. Steel entity.

That agreement ensures Calvert’s needs for U.S. domestically melted and poured material, according to ArcelorMittal.

Also in Calvert, the steelmaker says a portion of the facility there dedicated to producing nongrain-oriented electrical steel (NOES) is on track to begin production in the first half of 2027.

For accounting purposes, ArcelorMittal says that 100 percent of the Calvert complex’s earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) will be consolidated within the North America segment. Previously, those earnings had been divided between some of the firm’s other segments, including one for joint ventures.