Mission
Severstal is committed to competing at the leading edge of steelmaking and finishing technology to give its customers the highest quality products at a competitive price.

To achieve this goal, Severstal North America has established a technology network among its plants. This corporate-wide network is used to generate innovative ideas, test new manufacturing concepts, organize and interpret technical information and data for the requesting site. A community of experts, which resides throughout the company as well as in academia, government and industry, is a key component to this technology network. A knowledge management system is used to collect, organize and disseminate the work of the community of experts.  Both internal and outside labs can be used to perform bench-scale to pilot-scale trials under the guidance or direction of an applied research management team.

Activities
Severstal North America is a financial and technical contributor to the development of advanced high strength steel for the automotive market, alternative ironmaking, and the use of nanotechnology in coatings; development of the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from its iron and steelmaking processes; development of a corporate-wide quality management system that ties together inter-plant process, product and performance by utilizing common terminology and routine comparison of data; use of a total production maintenance system that incorporates preventive, predictive and autonomous maintenance practices; use of a structured training and employee development system that includes a mentor-employee relationship to carryover knowledge to new and transferred employees.

Partnerships
Severstal North America has developed and nurtured a host of mutual benefits from leveraging its research and development through the community of experts established within its plants, and mutual disclosure agreements with suppliers, universities, and entrepreneurial organizations.   Severstal North America also has working relationships with professional organizations such as the American Iron and Steel Institute, Association of Iron and Steel Technology, ASM International (The Materials Information Society) and the Society of Automotive Engineers, among others.

Core Competencies
Severstal North America maintains a full time advanced engineering staff capable of state-of-the-art computer modeling as it relates to material formability, part and component system durability and strength in service and automotive NVH analysis.   We are capable of executing vehicle crash modeling in support of our automotive customers.  In addition, Severstal North America also has applied finite element analysis models to a variety of other steel consuming customer applications.

Severstal North America is focused on providing its customers with “best in class” steelmaking technology and products in a global marketplace.