There is access to interstate I-65 for truck shipments north and south. Raw materials such as scrap, HBI, direct reduced iron and pig iron arrive by barge, rail and truck. Dock facilities on the Tennessee River provide access to the Port of Mobile, as well as the Port of New Orleans. The plant occupies 300 acres of a total 900-acre site with close to 650,000 sq ft under roof. There are approximately 10 miles of rail track.
Internal transportation is by rubber-tired mobile equipment and rail cars.
Currently, there are 300 employees of which 100 are salaried and 200 hourly. Major plant facilities are a two d-c electric arc furnace, two ladle metallurgy furnaces, two slab machines and two tunnel furnaces with shuttle furnace. The hot strip mill has an edger, two roughing stands, a coilbox, a 5-stand finishing mill and two downcoilers. Plant capacity is rated at 2.2 million finished tons per year based on the operation of the existing two electric arc furnaces, two casting machines and hot strip mill. Product sizes include widths of between 36 and 65 inches, gages between 0.040 and 0.625 inches, a profile of less than 0.0015 inches, a flatness greater than 25 I-units and a coil size of 1000 piw.