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Harsco Corp. announced that its Harsco Metals business has secured two new orders in the United States that total close to $40 million. The orders include slag processing and onsite environmental services.
Harsco Metals is returning to Severstal’s Warren, Ohio, steel mill under a five-year contract where it will undertake onsite slag handling, scrap recovery and material handling in support of the mill's recently resumed production. Harsco Metals was involved with services at that mill site for 60 years until the mill closed in 2008 due to the slumping economy. The mill resumed production in March 2010. The steel mill produces custom, alloy and ultra strength steel products. The contract also calls for Harsco to handle the external marketing of Severstal Warren's slag by-products for a range of commercial applications.
This latter role parallels Harsco's second order. That order includes the processing of more than one million tons of stockpiled blast furnace slag in Utah over the next three years. The slag will be used in the state's bridge and highway construction programs, following its acceptance for use by the Utah Department of Transportation.
Harsco will process the material from abandoned slag stockpiles left behind at the former Geneva Steel mill in Vineyard, Utah.
Harsco is currently involved in a similar project in Gadsden, Ala., where, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harsco is handling the remediation of an estimated three million tons of stockpiled slag left behind by the former Gulf States Steel works that closed down in 1999.