TMW to open toll processing center at Big River Steel in Arkansas

The Material Works Ltd. (TMW), Red Bud, Ill., has announced it will build a flat-rolled toll processing center adjacent to the new Big River Steel mill in Osceola, Ark. With construction beginning in Q2 2015, the facility is expected to be fully operational to coincide with Big River Steel’s opening in 2016. The toll processing center will create about 45 jobs.

Phase 1 of the facility calls for a 110,000-sq.-ft. plant to house cut-to-length and slitting lines for processing material from the lightest gauge the mill will produce up to 0.500 in. It will offer value-added services to the mill’s customers, including stretcher leveling.