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Steel mills near US$2b deal to buy plant
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The world’s two biggest steelmakers, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal and ArcelorMittal, are close to a US$2 billion deal to buy a US factory from Germany’s ThyssenKrupp, a report said yesterday.
Japan’s Nippon Steel and Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal have reached a basic accord with ThyssenKrupp on the deal worth nearly 200 billion yen (US$1.97 billion), the Nikkei economic daily said, without naming its sources.
The partners are making a joint bid for the plant in the state of Alabama that makes automotive sheet steel, aiming to more than double their combined production capacity in the US, it said.
Nippon Steel declined to comment on the possible purchase, which could be its largest ever outside Japan. The firm became the world’s second-biggest steelmaker following its merger with Sumitomo last year.
Without identifying possible buyers, ThyssenKrupp said this month that it was in exclusive negotiations on selling the state-of-the-art, but unprofitable plant which only came online in 2010.
Nippon Steel and ArcelorMittal will split the purchase costs evenly, with specifics to be fleshed out and announced in early December, the Nikkei said.
ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel already jointly produce steel in the state of Indiana.
Nippon Steel started an automotive steel sheet factory in Mexico in August and in Thailand in October.
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