<p>US’s leading supplier of refractory products and services Pittsburgh US headquartered HarbisonWalker International intends to invest approximately USD 25 million to convert its closed property at 2595 Ensley-Pleasant Grove Road in Fairfield in Alabama into Alabama One, a manufacturing, service, and distribution hub for steel customers in the southern United States. Construction will begin during the first quarter of 2022, and the 200,000 square feet facility is expected to open before the end of 2022.</p><p>HarbisonWalker International’s proposed new plant will produce world-class magnesia-carbon brick refractories specifically engineered to maximize efficiency and performance in critical steel-making applications like steel ladles and low-emission electric arc furnaces. Initially, production will add approximately 15,000 metric tons annually and ultimately up to 30,000 tonnes as additional equipment is added by 2023.</p><p>AL1 will become one of HWI's most technologically advanced and modernized facilities and contribute to HarbisonWalker International 's environmental and sustainability goals through energy-efficient operations. It will feature a high degree of robotics automation and technology and utilize lean techniques throughout its processes. HWI is committed to environmental sustainability and working toward carbon-neutral operations.</p><p>In 2019, HarbisonWalker International 's closure of its Fairfield plant was in direct response to the company's entrepreneurial business decision to exit its Carbon Bake brick products line of business due to the decline of the aluminum carbon bake market in North America and increasing product production costs.</p>
<p>US’s leading supplier of refractory products and services Pittsburgh US headquartered HarbisonWalker International intends to invest approximately USD 25 million to convert its closed property at 2595 Ensley-Pleasant Grove Road in Fairfield in Alabama into Alabama One, a manufacturing, service, and distribution hub for steel customers in the southern United States. Construction will begin during the first quarter of 2022, and the 200,000 square feet facility is expected to open before the end of 2022.</p><p>HarbisonWalker International’s proposed new plant will produce world-class magnesia-carbon brick refractories specifically engineered to maximize efficiency and performance in critical steel-making applications like steel ladles and low-emission electric arc furnaces. Initially, production will add approximately 15,000 metric tons annually and ultimately up to 30,000 tonnes as additional equipment is added by 2023.</p><p>AL1 will become one of HWI's most technologically advanced and modernized facilities and contribute to HarbisonWalker International 's environmental and sustainability goals through energy-efficient operations. It will feature a high degree of robotics automation and technology and utilize lean techniques throughout its processes. HWI is committed to environmental sustainability and working toward carbon-neutral operations.</p><p>In 2019, HarbisonWalker International 's closure of its Fairfield plant was in direct response to the company's entrepreneurial business decision to exit its Carbon Bake brick products line of business due to the decline of the aluminum carbon bake market in North America and increasing product production costs.</p>
