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Latest News & Events

17 January, 2012 Severstal Columbus Launches 2nd Hot Dip Galvanizing Line, Completes Phase 2 Expansion

10 January, 2012 Severstal North America to Undertake a Feasibility Study for a Reduced Iron Facility in Trinidad and Tobago

09 January, 2012 Severstal North America Successfully Hot Commissions New Hot Dip Galvanizing Line

02 December, 2011 Severstal Columbus Launches New Push Pull Pickle Line

16 November, 2011 Severstal Columbus Unveils $550 Million Phase II Facility Expansion

16 November, 2011 Severstal North America Appoints Vice President, Purchasing

06 October, 2011 Severstal Dearborn Begins Cold Run on the New Hot Dip Galvanizing Line This Week

29 September, 2011 Severstal Dearborn and its Employees Donate $15,000 to Purchase New Playground Equipment for City of Dearborn

14 September, 2011 Severstal North America Reports Favorable Court Order in the Jefferson Iron and Metal Case

29 August, 2011 Severstal North America Successful on Two Patent Fronts

18 August, 2011 Severstal North America Announces Successful Start-Up of New Pickle Line Tandem Cold Mill in Dearborn, Michigan

28 July, 2011 Severstal Columbus, LLC Signs $350 Million Revolving Credit Facility

13 July, 2011 Severstal North America Receives Conditional Commitment for $730 Million Loan from the U.S. Department of Energy

24 June, 2011 Severstal North America Named the Winner of American Metal Market’s 2011 Award for Steel Excellence

20 June, 2011 Severstal North America Appoints Vice President, Strategy and Business Development

02 June, 2011 Severstal North America Hot Commissions Second EAF at its Columbus site

19 May, 2011 Severstal Participates in Future Steel Vehicle Program; Supports Customer Needs through New State-of-the-Art Capabilities

12 May, 2011 Severstal Columbus Receives Best Practices Award from EMCC Workforce Services

11 May, 2011 Severstal North America Reaches another Favorable Patent Decision

02 May, 2011 Severstal North America Appoints Wilbur Winland Vice President and General Manager, Severstal Columbus

31 March, 2011 Severstal North America Completes Asset Sale and Accelerates Capital Improvements

2 March, 2011 Severstal North America Sells Warren, Wheeling, and Sparrows Point Facilities

18 January, 2011 - Severstal Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit

11 January, 2011 - Severstal Columbus Earns International Automotive Quality Recognition

3 December, 2010 - Wheeling Corrugating Donates Steel for Artwork

4 November, 2010 - Severstal North America Further Extends Idling of Sparrows Point Primary and Hot Mill Operations

30 September, 2010 - Severstal Sparrows Point Initiates Renewable Energy Program   > more news & events

Our Mission

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To be the leader in value creation. Value creation means using our knowledge, experience and expertise for the development and sustainable growth of the company. We consider the interests of all stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, suppliers, employees, business partners and the communities in which we operate.

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Unity


We are a united company benefiting from dynamic synergies throughout all of our worldwide operations. Our unity is defined by an integration that is based on our shared values, goals, values, business standards and principles of work. Only together we can achieve more.

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Safety

People are our most valuable asset.  Those are not just words to us.   The protection of the health and safety of our team members is a core value and is the key to our strong safety commitment at all levels of the organization.  The fundamental underlying company principle is that the only acceptable company goal for safety is zero accidents. 

Severstal North America’s health and safety policy requires a systematic approach to establishing and monitoring the performance of its safe work procedures and processes.  These procedures and processes preserve and enhance our employees' ability to work effectively and safely.  This approach is built around pro-active efforts to maintain a safe and healthful workplace, assess operations for risks and hazards, establish engineered safety protection and employ well-thought-out safe work practices.  It mandates the continuous monitoring of our safety performance, striving for improvement and taking prompt action to correct unsafe practices and conditions.  The policy extends to the protection of our business partners and visitors.  A visible manifestation of this commitment is the requirement that our business partners and visitors participate in our safety orientation program (before they enter our manufacturing facilities).

The company’s growth across North America has been married to a desire to develop a common safety approach, which is committed to continuous improvement at all North American business units.  To achieve this goal, the company is working to align all its business units within the scope of the company’s Health and Safety Management System (“HSMS”).  Severstal Dearborn’s Safety Management System has been certified to be in compliance with the OHSAS 18001 management standard since 2005.  This standard has provided a homogenous framework for continuing improvement in safety performance by the Dearborn operation. To view Dearborn's OHSAS 18001 certificate, please click here.

With this heralded success and approach to safety performance, all North American operating units are now working toward a multi-site OHSAS 18001 registration.  This registration process encompasses all steelmaking divisions.  This new HSMS system is a template to help ensure that our policies are planned, implemented and managed effectively, and that they comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

The company does and will employ various methods to grow its safety culture -- ranging from guest speakers, to a variety of training modules, to both domestic and global safety benchmarking.  But one of the most valuable drivers for improving the North American safety culture is the use of pre-planning of jobs.  Although different formats for pre-planning are in use, the Job Safety Analysis or Safety Pre-task Analysis, positively impacts our safety culture and behaviors.  This approach has already been demonstrated to lead to significant injury reduction and contributes to the effective implementation of injury prevention programs, like the hand safety program. 

These interactive steps engage all levels of management, supervision and plant workers in identifying and defining the potential and known safety hazards related to a specific activity’s tasks, and aid in determining the required steps and practices to be followed to allow for safely completing the job, including the use of the appropriate mandatory personal protective equipment. 

We strongly believe in the practice of “what gets measured can be managed.” We measure and report our monthly health and safety performance, the incidents that take place and our compliance actions at all Severstal North America locations.
     

2008 Safety Highlights

• Severstal Dearborn – A Union Safety Coordinator program was developed and launched.  For operations and maintenance activities, 16 Safety Coordinators were jointly selected, trained and developed to take ownership and direction of their assigned mill’s safety needs.  Each mill now has, at a minimum, a pair of embedded competent safety coordinators to affect a change of culture, take ownership of safety issues and to be an available resource to the workforce. This program has greatly improved Dearborn’s overall safety performance.

• Severstal Columbus – A facility survey was designed to identify gaps in fall protection safety for those areas above crane rail girders.  Lifelines were engineered and installed to complement the existing fall protection measures in place for the overhead cranes’ access.  

 
 
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