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New York — Operations are normal at the biggest processor of steel in the western US, California Steel Industries, a company spokesman said Monday.

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"CSI is about 120 miles from the earthquake's center, so we felt it (as did all So Cal), but there was no impact or damage to the mill," Kyle Schulty, CSI's assistant to the president, said.

Located about 50 miles east of Los Angeles in Fontana, CSI is capable of producing more than 2 million st/year of flat-rolled steel (hot-rolled, pickled-and-oiled, galvanized, and cold-rolled sheet), and electric resistance welded pipe.

The plant features an 86-in hot strip mill, hot-rolled strip finishing facilities, a 62-in continuous pickling line, a 5-Stand cold reduction mill, two hot-dip galvanizing lines, annealing and tempering mills, and an ERW pipe mill.

Unlike integrated steel mills or mini-mills, CSI does not melt or cast steel. As a slab converter (or re-roller), CSI is reliant almost entirely on imported slab to produce sheet steel and welded pipe.

"Because steel slabs are not commercially available in the United States on any consistent basis, nor are they produced anywhere in the western United States, CSI buys its slabs primarily from Mexico, Brazil and Japan," the company has said.

CSI has also said it is the largest customer by tonnage of the Port of Los Angeles -- importing more than 1.5 million st/year of slab.

-- Joe Innace, joseph.innace@spglobal.com

-- Edited by Derek Sands, newsdesk@spglobal.com

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