OREANDA-NEWS. July 17, 2012. ArcelorMittal Hunedoara in Romania has started commercial production at its new rolling mill, following a EUR 43 million investment, reported the press-centre of ArcelorMittal.

The new rolling line will replace the one used before the modernisation project and will have an estimated annual production capacity of 400,000 tons.

“Despite the challenging economic situation, we are continuing our modernisation projects for our Hunedoara Long Carbon unit, in order to improve the quality of our products, to extend our product portfolio and to include Euro rolled profiles” said Amit Kumar, chief executive officer, ArcelorMittal Hunedoara.

Following this investment, ArcelorMittal Hunedoara is now producing both current profiles (such as UPN, IPN), new profiles (Euro profiles IPE, UPE and H) and round rolled bars.