This division has production facilities at 8 integrated and mini-mill sites located in four countries.

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Most depressing of all, even the mini-mill operators, led by Nucor, lobbied hard for trade barriers.

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The production facilities for this division are located at 15 integrated and mini-mill sites located in six countries.

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LTV, for one, failed miserably to turn itself into a zippy mini-mill producer.

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Nikolai Maximov founded steel mini-mill developer Maxi Group and sold his controlling stake to billionaire Vladimir Lisin's NLMK in 2007.

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An even lower-cost group of domestic producers are the mini-mill operators, such as Nucor, which make steel from scrap metal instead of iron ore.

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Yet it may still not be good enough: the best mini-mill firms can make a ton of steel using less than one man-hour of labour.

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The company has 15 production facilities in the Americas that are integrated and mini-mill sites located in 6 countries while in Europe production facilities are located at 17 integrated and mini-mill sites in 9 countries.

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