Mind-boggling ThyssenKrupp statistics

ThyssenKrupp's rendering of new steel mill to be built on Tombigbee River at Calvert.

Here are some statistics and projections for the new ThyssenKrupp steel mill to be built at Calvert:

Cost: $3.7 billion. Size: About 7 million square feet. Operation: Startup 2010. Jobs: 2,700 jobs. Over 20 years, 38,000 to 52,000 additional indirect jobs.

Product: Carbon steel and stainless steel for high-value applications by manufacturers in the U.S. and throughout North America.

The mill: A hot strip mill to process slabs from the company's new steel mill in Brazil. Cold rolling and hot-dip coating capacity for flat carbon steel products.

Production capacity: About 5.5 million metric tons per year of end products: 4.5 million metric tons of carbon steel and 1 million metric ton of stainless steel.

Internet: http://www.thyssenkruppnewusplant. com/overview/

Mobile website offers contact

Blue area defines huge plant east of Highway 43.

The Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce has a link on its website to help individuals and companies contact ThyssenKrupp about work opportunities. Go to www.mobilechamber.com and click on the link "Looking to do Business with ThyssenKrupp?"

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