MultiServ Adds Services at Steel Mills

At the ASCOMETAL Fos-sur-Mer plant in France, MultiServ will add scrap yard management and the operation of ASCOMETAL's scrap handling cranes to its service responsibilities under a new seven-year contract extension. The added responsibilities expand MultiServ's on-site relationship which began in 1974. The Fos-sur-Mer works specializes in large-diameter products and wire.

In Brazil, MultiServ will expand its ongoing services at the Acesita stainless works. MultiServ will introduce a slag pot hauling service to handle the mill's ferro-chromium slag. Acesita currently produces approximately 850,000 tons of stainless and other specialty steels per year. MultiServ has operated at the Acesita site since 1981.

In Italy, MultiServ will undertake its first contract at the Ferriera Valsider steel works. Ferriera Valsider produces heavy plate and coils. MultiServ's contract calls for a range of slab logistics services, including slab handling, oxycutting and manual slab scarfing.

MultiServ is the world's largest provider of on-site, outsourced mill services to the steel and metals industry and operates under renewable long-term contracts at more than 160 locations worldwide.