Commercial Metals Company

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Commercial Metals Company NYSE: CMC, based in Irving, TX, is a United States based steel and metal manufacturer founded in 1915. It owns four steel minimills in Texas, Alabama, South Carolina and Arkansas, one copper minimill (Howell Metal Company) in Virginia, fabricators, and recyclers in the United States and CMC Zawiercie, S.A., the third largest steelmaker in Poland.

Commercial Metals Company engages in the manufacture, recycle, market, and distribution of steel and metal products and related materials and services in the United States and internationally. It operates four steel minimills located in Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, and Arkansas that produce reinforcing bar, angles, flats, rounds, small beams, fence-post sections, and other shapes; scrap metal processing facilities that directly support these minimills; a copper tube minimill; and a railroad rail salvage company. The company also operates a rolling mill CMC Zawiercie S.A. that produces primarily reinforcing bar and merchant products; wire rods; and steel fabrication plants primarily for reinforcing bar. In addition, Commercial Metals Company involves in domestic fabrication operations through steel fabrication and processing plants that bend, weld, cut, fabricate, distribute, and place steel, primarily reinforcing bar and angles; warehouses that sell or rent products for the installation of concrete; produces special sections for floors and support for ceilings and floors; produces steel fence posts; and treat steel with heat to strengthen and provide flexibility. Further, it engages in the recycling operations through metal processing plants located in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Additionally, the company markets and distributes steel; copper and aluminum coil; sheet and tubing; ores; metal concentrates; industrial minerals; ferroalloys; and chemicals. Its customers include steel, nonferrous metals, metal fabrication, chemical, refractory, and transportation businesses. The company was founded in 1915 and is based in Irving, Texas.