Overview
At Severstal North America, we will exceed the expectations of our customers by using technologically advanced steelmaking and finishing processes to offer the finest quality steel products at competitive lead times and price.
To achieve this goal, we are operating with a strategic plan which includes capital expenditures to construct the most advanced steel finishing operations for sheet products, a corporate-wide Global Technology System to identify the most cost effective steel manufacturing processes and to optimize steel production and product quality in its facilities around the world, and  utilizing leveraged Research and Development by participating with university, government and industry consortia and individual entrepreneurial companies to promote breakthrough technology and the resulting innovative steel products which customers will demand.

Our Technological Advantage
In Dearborn, Michigan, Severstal is building a state-of-the-art coupled Pickle Line/5 stand-6 high Tandem Cold Reduction Mill (PLTCM) especially designed to produce tight dimensional tolerance on advanced high strength steels (AHSS) to meet the demands of its automotive customers as well as the capability of a wide range of products to serve the marketplace for other demanding applications. We are also constructing a Hot Dip Coating Line to produce galvanized and galvannealled coils for automotive exposed coated applications and the furnace/cooling equipment to provide high capability for the required DP and TRIP advanced steels.  A Continuous Annealing Line (CAL) is being considered to produce the 3rd Generation AHSS of the future.

In Columbus, Mississippi, Severstal has built and is operating, on a 1,400 acre site, a world-class plant using advanced Compact Strip Production (CSP) technology. There is ample room for expansion of downstream processing and on-site service partners, and some of these value added processing facilities are becoming a reality. The facility serves a wide variety of steel consuming industries, including:  automotive, agriculture, appliance, construction and building, energy, electrical, and pipe and tube. The plant was built near a major university with a center for advanced vehicle systems to take advantage of graduates for new employees, and to participate in collaborative R&D in support of improved products and processes.

Global Technology System
State-of-the-art steelmaking and finishing equipment gives our company a competitive edge. However, process and quality control, preventive maintenance and a highly trained workforce coupled with cost effective raw materials, efficient processes and optimum product chemistry insures market sustainability.  To identify and implement the best steelmaking and finishing processes within Severstal, a corporate-wide network called Global Technology System (GTS) was introduced in 2010.  GTS is used by Severstal plants worldwide to generate innovative ideas, test new manufacturing concepts and exchange operating experience and expertise to generate the best operating procedures and product characteristics throughout the company.

Research and Development
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.   

 Advanced Engineering / Product Development
We staff an Advanced Engineering Group and a Product Development Group, which utilize the technical information gleaned from the leveraged R&D projects.  These corporate groups have also been instrumental with internal development of new products such as aluminum coated boron cold rolled sheet steel products for critical hot stamping applications. Automotive customers who have collaborated with these groups have benefitted with material cost savings and part design optimization.

We will provide the best steel products to our customers at a competitive price and continue to optimize the Global Technology System and invest in R&D to guarantee our sustainability.

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