MultiServ has been awarded three new contracts that are related to on-site processing and recycling of steelmaking slab by-products. MultiServ is a division of Harsco Corp. The three new contracts, two in the United States and one in New Zealand, are expected to generate additional new service revenues of more than $35 million over their duration.
Under a new multi-year agreement with Anderson Geneva Development of Vineyard, Utah, MultiServ will process a six million ton stockpile of iron and steelmaking slag at the site of the former Geneva Steel Works. The products will be prepared for commercial re-use by the aggregate and construction industries, where they are slated to be used in road building and asphalt paving, drainage control and other applications, and as a raw feed for the production of Portland cement by cement makers throughout the Western United States.
In Michigan, MultiServ will expand its role at United States Steel Corp.'s Great Lakes works by assuming the responsibilities for in-plant material transport of certain steelmaking by-products. The material is recycled back into US Steel’s production in the form of feeder briquettes, a process which is also provided by MultiServ through its National Recovery Systems operations. MultiServ's newly-added responsibilities for the transport and flow of materials should further enhance production throughput at the briquetting plant.
In New Zealand, MultiServ will process a stockpile of steel slag material on behalf of New Zealand Steel, which hopes to use the recovered scrap content for sale into the external market. NZS is New Zealand's largest steel producer, with annual production of about 600,000 tons of slab for both the domestic and international markets. The new work continues a more than 25-year relationship as New Zealand Steel's primary on-site mill services contractor.