North Star BHP L.L.C. has signed Worthington Industries as a long-term customer, a press report said. Worthington will take up to one-third of the future minimill's output. As a result, Worthington will not build it sown minimill. Worth mgtonhad been rumored to be interested in building a minimill for quite some time. Rather, the company will build a processing center adjacent to the Delta, OH, joint venture of North Star Steel Company and BHP Steel, Australia. The 65 million dollars hot dip galvanizing line, with pickling and slitting capabilities, will start up in late 1996, at about the same time as the minimill. Rouge Steel Company, of which Worthington owns 28 percent, may become a joint venture partner in the galvanizing line, the report said.
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