CMC selects Danieli technology for West Virginia mill

Italy-based Danieli & C. S.p.A. has announced it is supplying electric arc furnace (EAF) equipment to Texas-based Commercial Metals Co. (CMC) for a new CMC-operated steel mill in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Danieli says the mill’s melt shop will have 500,000 tons per year of capacity.

“We are pleased to enter the next phase of this exciting investment, and to establish CMC’s manufacturing presence in West Virginia,” CMC President and CEO Barbara R. Smith says. The CMC Steel West Virginia business unit is scheduled to begin operations in late 2025.

“We believe this new micro mill, among the most environmentally friendly steelmaking operations in the world, will strengthen our operational network throughout the Eastern United States by achieving synergies with our existing mill and downstream facilities,” Smith says.

“The planned site, located in the eastern panhandle of the state near Martinsburg, is well situated to serve key metropolitan markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast as well as the Midwest. CMC Steel West Virginia is a core component of CMC’s strategic growth plan and will help ensure our long-term competitiveness in critical geographical markets.”

Danieli says this project represents the fourth installation for CMC of its “hybrid-ready, MIDA QLP plant.”  The 500,000-tons-per-year mill be able to produce both straight length and spooled rebar, according to Danieli, adding, “Scrap will be melted by a Digimelter unit charged via endless scrap charging system."

Other equipment to be supplied by Danieli includes power feeders, a single-strand Octocaster, rolling equipment designed to “roll endless billets into straight bars,” a K-Spool line and process control systems, some of which make use of Danieli robotic solutions.