Mittal Steel is one of the world's largest and most global steel producers with steel-making facilities in 14 countries and sales and marketing offices in a further 11. Mittal Steel has set the pace for the consolidation and globalisation of the world steel industry. They have taken on a range of acquisitions, many of them formerly public sector-owned companies, and made successes of them. Mittal Steel produces a broad range of high-quality finished and semi-finished products for the flat and long products markets.

They are among the most efficient steel producers in the world. They encompass all aspects of modern steelmaking, combining both integrated and mini-mill facilities and producing much of the iron ore and coking coal used in our furnaces. Mittal Steel are also among the most advanced steel makers, operating a range of modern technologies. They have pioneered the use of direct reduced iron (DRI) as a raw material source and are now the world's biggest producer of DRI. With two technical research facilities, our product development teams are ready to meet the needs of the most demanding customers.

Today, Mittal Steel is the only truly global steel maker - with operations in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Trinidad, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Algeria and South Africa.

Mittal Steel is one of the most technologically advanced steel companies in the world, operating a range of modern steel making technologies. These include DRI-EAF, Corex-Midrex-CSP and BF-BOF. Their steel-finishing plants, I/N Tek and I/N Kote (both joint ventures with Nippon Steel), have set new standards for automation, productivity and quality in the production of cold-rolled and galvanised steels.

Mittal Steel has two state-of-the-art research and development centres with global responsibility for

process and product development.

Over the years, they have developed the most comprehensive portfolio of advanced high strength steels for the automotive industry and innovative products for the appliance and electric motor industries (including advanced high-strength steels, stainless substitute steels and fingerprint-resistant steels).

Mittal Steel was among the first steel makers to participate in the customer product design process.

Mittal Steel offers one of the broadest product ranges in the world steel industry:

Semi-finished steel: In the form of slabs, semi-finished steel is used to roll into flat products. In the form of blooms or billets, it is used to make long products.

Flat products: Mittal Steel makes a complete range of flat products. Hot rolled products are used in the petrochemicals, construction, shipbuilding and

Long products: This is a diverse range of finished products - spanning everything from automotive forgings to bright drawn free machining bars for precision engineering.

Wire rod: Mittal Steel produces everything from 0.4mm wire to high-tensile steel rounds. At one extreme, they can be further processed into paper clips; at the other, into suspension bridge cables.