The Making of Steel

Sept. 26, 2014
This slideshow takes you inside the 1,550-employee AM/NS Calvert steel finishing plant, which has 2.8 million square feet of buildings, a river terminal, hot strip mill, cold rolling mill, rail yard and four hot dip galvanizing lines.

As the transportation editor for IndustryWeek, it's not often I get to step foot inside a steel processing plant.

But, during a recent trip to Alabama, the automotive world and the steel industry collided.

In touring the AM/NS Calvert steel processing plant, a joint venture between ArcelorMittal (IW 1000/49) and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (IW 1000/84) in Calvert, Ala., and then the Honda Manufacturing of Alabama plant in Lincoln, Ala., I was able to see how steel finished at Calvert was used on vehicles in Lincoln, in particular, the Usibor door ring -- a hot stamped, laser welded steel door ring being made for the Acura MDX.

This slideshow takes you inside the 1,550-employee AM/NS Calvert steel finishing plant, which has 2.8 million square feet of buildings, a river terminal, hot strip mill, cold rolling mill, rail yard and four hot dip galvanizing lines.

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Ginger Christ is an associate editor for EHS Today, a Penton publication.

She has covered business news for the past seven years, working at daily and weekly newspapers and magazines in Ohio, including the Dayton Business Journal and Crain's Cleveland Business.

Most recently, she covered transportation and leadership for IndustryWeek, a sister publication to EHS Today.

She holds a bachelor of arts in English and in Film Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

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