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Article: Steel Dynamics blasts rivals in tough market
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- Indianapolis Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 27, 2002
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Steel Dynamics Inc. in Fort Wayne is one of the few steel manufacturers flourishing in an industry decimated by a glut of cheaper imports.
Founded in 1993 by CEO Keith Busse and two partners, Steel Dynamics has avoided the carnage by pioneering a process that enables the company to produce steel less expensively.
Known within the industry as thin-slab casting, the technique casts a steel ribbon two inches thick instead of the standard 12 inches. It benefits the steel-making process for flat products by circumventing the large investment in equipment needed to break the 12-inch slabs down to two inches.
Busse, a former executive at steel-producer NuCor Corp., perfected the method while NuCor ...
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