ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada, a part of ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading integrated steel and mining company, recently completed an 18-month long installation of a new finishing line at its bar mill in Longueuil, Québec. The $27 million (CAD) project is forecast to boost the facility’s annual rolling capacity from 400,000 to 500,000 metric tonnes per year; in addition, it will be able to make new value-added steel products available to local and international markets.

“Our new finishing line has been built to better respond to the needs of our clients and support the company’s development over the next few years. The project is part of our growth strategy to maximize the profitability of our steel,” said Sujit Sanyal, President and CEO, ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada. “We are reaffirming our leadership in the steel and mining industry in North America as an integrated company: from mining to steel to customers.”

The Longueuil bar mill converts steel billets cast from recycled scrap iron and iron ore extracted on Québec’s North Shore into special grade and merchant bars, reinforcing steel (rebar), and other semi-finished products for customers in North America and Mexico. The bar mill is the world’s largest supplier of steel used by the world’s automotive manufacturers in leaf springs for light and heavy trucks. The new finishing line will secure additional outlets for billets from the two ArcelorMittal Montreal steelworks in Contrecoeur and will increase the bar mill’s capacity by 100,000 tonnes per year.

Since 2008, ArcelorMittal Montreal has undergone several upgrades and expansions in an effort to improve the mill’s performance and reduce energy consumption and greenhouse emissions, including the installation of a new reheat furnace in 2013. In operation since 1974, the Longueuil plant is one of the cornerstones of the company’s rolling capacity expansion plan to be executed between now and 2020.

Source: ArcelorMittal