Steel Dynamics
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Our Company
Steel Dynamics is one of the largest and most diversified domestic steel producers and metals recyclers in the United States, with an estimated steelmaking and coating capacity of approximately 13 million tons, and facilities located throughout the United States and in Mexico. We operate using a circular manufacturing model, producing lower-carbon-emission, quality steel using electric arc furnace (EAF) technology with recycled ferrous scrap as the primary input. Our circular economy is powered by our three primary operating platforms: steel, metals recycling, and steel fabrication.
Our steel operations produce steel products, including hot roll, cold roll, and coated sheet steel, structural steel beams and shapes, rail, engineered special-bar-quality steel, cold finished steel, merchant bar products, and specialty steel sections. Our metals recycling operations collect and process ferrous and nonferrous scrap from manufacturing and end-of-life items, such as automobiles, appliances, and machinery. This processed scrap is then sold to end-users for reuse, including our EAF steel mills, which produce new steel from the scrapped material. We sell a meaningful amount of steel to our own steel fabrication operations that in turn produce and sell structural steel joist and deck building systems to consumers.
Strategic Pillars
We refer to our founding principles as our six core strategic pillars. They bring us together with a common focus, and they provide the foundation upon which we operate and grow. Our unique entrepreneurial culture and business model benefit us operationally, financially, and through the responsible use of our resources in diverse economic environments. Innovation in all forms is essential to our success, and our teams focus on how to do things “smarter” within our current operations as well as how we continue to grow. This means creating solutions for our teammates, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. It also includes finding ways to “do business” with fewer resources and less environmental impact.
Health and Safety
Creating and maintaining a healthy and safe work environment is core to our values. We want every team member to go home safely at the end of each shift, and take an active role in remaining safe, both on the job and at home. Our goal is zero incidents—no accidents, no lost workdays, no injuries. We will not be satisfied until our goal is achieved by taking team-based and personal responsibility for creating and maintaining a safe working environment at every location. Team members take an active role in safety so they make a concerted effort to be safe and look out for each other. Within our culture, we believe if you act safely at home, you’ll also work safely on the job.
Safety
The Fabric of Our Company
Creating and maintaining a safe work environment is core to our values. We want every team member to go home safely at the end of each shift and take an active role in remaining safe both on the job and at home. Our goal is zero incidents—no accidents, no lost workdays, no injuries. We will not be satisfied until our goal is achieved by taking team-based and personal responsibility for creating and maintaining a safe working environment at every location.
Team members take an active role in safety so they make a concerted effort to be safe and look out for each other. Within our culture, we believe if you act safely at home, you’ll also work safely on the job.
Entrepreneurial Culture
Our entrepreneurial culture fosters a team of energetic, positive, driven, innovative, and diverse individuals by utilizing performance-based compensation aligned to our strategic focus. This results in our low-cost, safe, and efficient operations and the production of quality products.
Customer Commitment
We focus on remaining our customers’ preferred supplier by providing outstanding products and unique supply-chain solutions that exceed expectations, as we anticipate their future needs and deliver greater value.
Customer Commitment
Solutions for Every Customer
We focus on staying our customers’ preferred supplier by providing outstanding products and unique supply-chain solutions that exceed expectations, as we anticipate their future needs and deliver greater value.
Strategic Sustainable Growth
We are one of the most diversified, high-margin product providers of any domestic steel producer. We focus on growth through capital-effective opportunities that leverage our existing culture and areas of expertise.
Innovation
Through individual creativity and ingenuity, we drive innovation to improve safety, quality, productivity, and resource sustainability, implementing innovative technologies and processes in order to perform at the highest level and consistently achieve excellence in all that we do.
Innovation
At Our Core
Through individual creativity and ingenuity, we drive innovation to improve safety, quality, productivity and resource sustainability, implementing innovative technologies and processes in order to perform at the highest level and consistently achieve excellence in all that we do.
Financial Strength
We sustain lowest cost operating platforms through supply chain self-sufficiency, which reduces working capital. We maintain long-term sustainability of capital structure, with optionality through the business cycle. We take a disciplined approach to capital investments and superior returns.