California Steel Industries, Inc. - Introduction

Introduction

14000 San Bernadino Avenue
Fontana, California 92335
U.S.A.
Telephone: (909) 350-6200
Fax: (909) 350-6223
Web site: http://www.californiasteel.com

Private Company
Incorporated: 1984
Employees: 923
Sales: $763.55 million (2003)
NAIC: 331221 Rolled Steel Shape Manufacturing; 331210 Iron and Steel Pipe and Tube Manufacturing from Purchased Steel

California Steel Industries, Inc. (CSI) ranks as the largest producer of flat-rolled steel in the western United States. CSI does not manufacture steel. The company buys steel slab from third-party vendors and processes the slab into finished steel products, producing hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized coil and sheet. CSI also produces electric resistance welded pipe. The company's steel products are used in a variety of goods, including appliances, home furnaces, automobile wheels and rims, plumbing fixtures, water heaters, lighting fixtures, decking, and tanks. CSI serves customers in the 11 states west of the Rocky Mountains from its 450-acre manufacturing facility in Fontana, California, 50 miles east of Los Angeles. The company is owned by JFE Steel Corporation (formerly Kawasaki Steel Corp.), a major steel producer in Japan, and Companhia Vale do Rio Doce Ltd., a state-owned Brazilian natural resources company that ranks as the world's largest iron ore producer and exporter.