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operates non-union mini-mills that produce steel and steel products on a low-cost basis. The company produces steel reinforcing bar (rebar) used in the construction industry and rounds, squares, flats, angles, channel and strip - also know as merchant products - ....

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.... and Seattle, Washington. There is also a rolling mill in Joliet, Illinois; a rebar distribution operation based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (PESCO); steel distribution depots in Baltimore, Maryland, and Oakland and Fontana, California; and a steel scrap recycling and processing facility in Jackson, Mississippi. The company operates two high quality bar, rod, and wire production facilities in Cleveland, Ohio. Through its subsidiary, Birmingham Southeast, LLC, the company specializes in producing merchant products at facilities in Cartersville, Georgia, and Jackson, Mississippi. Birmingham Steel also owns fifty percent of three joint venture comp ....