Saldanha Steel
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Saldanha Steel is a South African steel company which was originally formed as a partnership between Iscor Limited and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). Saldanha Steel is part of Mittal Steel South Africa which in turn is part of global steel company Arcelor-Mittal.
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The R6,8bn Saldanha Steel facilities, situated on the Cape west coast roughly 10km away from Langebaan Lagoon's ecologically sensitive wetlands, has been designed to produce 1,25 million tons of hot-rolled carbon steel coil per year. The mill was commissioned in 1998.
Following the unbundling of Iscor's mining and steel assets, the Industrial Development Corporation has now become a major shareholder of Iscor Ltd.

