Harsco gets contract to expand into Slovenia

Archiv – United Kingdom / Slovenia | Industrial services company, Harsco Corp. is expanding into Slovenia after landing a contract expected to generate more than $25 million in revenue. The comany says it will assume responsibility for processing and selling products made by Slovenia’s largest steel maker, Acroni. United Kingdom / Slovenia | Industrial services company, Harsco Corp. is expanding into Slovenia after landing a contract expected to generate more than $25 million in revenue. The comany says it will assume responsibility for processing and selling products made by Slovenia’s largest steel maker, Acroni.
The steel manufacturer ranks as Europe’s fifth largest producer of finished electrical sheet steel and its third largest producer of heavy stainless steel plates, a product sector where the mill has made substantial investments in recent years to expand its market position. The mill is currently considering plans to increase its stainless steel production even further. Acroni exports approximately 70% of its production throughout the EU as well as to the U.S. and China.
Harsco will apply its environmental solutions technologies to recover valuable metal content from the slag and will also take responsibility for the residual slag material. The Company expects to sell the recovered metal for re-use in steel production or through its cooperative partners with which the Company has relationships in this region, such as Scholz AG.
Harsco will also assume responsibility for the processing of stockpiled slag at the mill, estimated to be in the area of 300,000 tons of material. Slag is classified by the Slovenian Ministry of the Environment as an inert material and is included on the country’s “green list” for environmentally sustainable commercial utilization.
Work under the contract is scheduled to begin in the latter half of this year, and will include the construction of an onsite slag processing and metal recovery facility that will be owned and operated by Harsco.