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Gerdau Cartersville
Thursday, 10 May • 7:30 a.m.–Noon
Cost: Member US$50, Nonmember US$75 • Tour is Limited
The Cartersville steel mill was purchased
by Gerdau in 2002. The 344 employees of the
location successfully achieved ISO9001 and 14001 in 2005 and 2006, respectively. The
facility was originally built and operated by
Atlantic Steel in 1975 as a greenfield site. Birmingham Steel purchased the facility in
1996, upgrading the meltshop, and removing the original 12-inch bar mill to install the
medium section mill.
Production rates and finished product mix were expanded after the Gerdau acquisition.
The meltshop consists of one Demag-designed 120-ton eccentric bottom tapping
electric arc furnace and an accompanying ladle furnace. The voestalpine 4-strand caster
is capable of producing six different billet/bloom/beam blank sizes, at approximately 1
million tons annually. The rolling mill produces various shapes, including wide flange
beams, standard I-beams, channels, angles and flats. The Schloemann Siemag-designed
mill consists of a reversing rougher and 12 in-line stands. The finishing end processes
product through either the traversing cold saw or the 1,000 mT Danieli cold shear, and
then onto an 80-foot Danieli stacker. The cold shear and stacker were successfully commissioned
in 2006. The rolling mill capacity is in excess of 580,000 tons annually.
About Gerdau Long Steel North America
• Gerdau Long Steel North America is the second largest mini-mill steel producer in
North America.
• Annual manufacturing capacity of approximately 10 million tons of finished steel
products.
• Through its vertically integrated network of steel mills, recycling operations and
downstream facilities, Gerdau Long Steel North America serves customers throughout
the United States and Canada.
• Gerdau Long Steel North America employs approximately 8,000 people in the
United States and Canada.
• Gerdau is a leader in long steel production in the Americas and one of the largest
suppliers of special steel in the world.
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U. S. Steel Fairfield Works
Thursday, 10 May • 7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Cost: Member US$100, Nonmember US$150 • Tour is Limited
Located approximately 10 miles west of Birmingham, Ala., the United States Steel Corporation’s Fairfield Works is comprised of both steelmaking and finishing facilities. Included in the finishing facilities is Fairfield Tubular Operations, a seamless pipe mill.
Fairfield Works has an annual raw steelmaking capability of approximately 2.4 million net tons. The facility’s flat rolled division produces hot rolled, cold rolled and coated sheet products for customers in the metal building components, automotive and appliance industries.
Fairfield Tubular Operations is capable of producing approximately 750,000 net tons of seamless tubular products annually, ranging from 4.5 to 9.875 inches outside diameter. These products primarily serve customers in the oil country tubular goods markets.
The production facilities consist of the following: blast furnace, three bottom-blown basic oxygen process furnaces (Q-BOP) vessels, ladle metallurgy facility, slab caster, rounds caster, 68-inch hot strip mill, 60-inch pickle line, 52-inch 6-stand cold reduction mill, 62-inch hot-dip galvanizing line, 50-inch hot-dip galvanizing/Galvalume® line, batch annealing facility, 52-inch temper line, rotary piercing mill, stretch reducing mill, austenitizing furnace, quench unit, temper furnace and sizing mill.
Please note: All non-U.S. citizens MUST provide a copy of their passport to Shannon Kiley at the time of registration for the Fairfield Works tour.
A lunch will be provided for all tour attendees and the bus will stop at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on the route back to Atlanta.
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