A North American steel supplier announced today that it has begun operating its continuous galvanizing line, which will produce hot-dip galvanized sheet steel for the automotive market. Nucor-JFE Steel Mexico, located in Silao, Guanajuato in central Mexico, has begun trial production and will move towards full-scale sales and production once customer approvals have been obtained.
“We are excited to expand our presence in Mexico and to use our local sales network to increase our sales into this important automotive market,” said Leon Topalian, President and CEO of Nucor. “We are proud to partner with JFE Steel Corporation of Japan and to benefit from their experience as a premier supplier of high-quality products to the automotive industry.”
The hot-dip galvanized sheet steel production facility has a production capacity of 400,000 tons annually. It can produce sheet thickness from 0.4 mm to 2.6 mm and widths of 800 mm to 1,850 mm. Nucor and JFE will each supply an equal amount of substrate to be processed at the new facility.
