Severstal North America Commissions New Line

Steel company’s new hot dip galvanizing line yields 500,000 tons of annual capacity at its Michigan location.

The steel company Severstal North America, headquartered in Dearborn, Mich., has officially opened its new hot dip galvanizing line (HDGL) at its Dearborn facility. The new line will allow the company to produce a range of galvanized products, primarily for the automotive industry.

“This is an exciting time for Severstal North America,” says Sergei Kuznetsov, CEO of Severstal North America. “The long-awaited launch of this new state-of-the-art facility strengthens our presence in the automotive industry with highly demanded galvanized and galvanneal products for internal and external parts of automobiles.”

The new HDGL includes controls for coating thickness and surface texture, as well as alloy and phase control. The $285 million HDGL project completion follows the August 2011 start-up of Severstal Dearborn’s Pickle Line Tandem Cold Mill (PLTCM).

According to a Severstal news release, the new line is capable of producing 500,000 tons of exposed hot-dipped galvanized (HDGI) and exposed hot-dipped galvanneal (HDGA) steel. The steel produced is expected to be used in the exposed automotive, appliance and furniture industries, as well as precision automotive products, including high-strength and advanced high-strength steels sought by auto manufacturers.

Severstal says the HDGL and PLTCM facilities are part of a modernization program the company is undertaking to expand its finishing capabilities to produce a wide range of high quality steel products.

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