SSAB Announces Expansion

The Swedish steel manufacturer SSAB announced plans today to expand their steel mill in Axis located in north Mobile county. The plant currently employs 400 and with the expansion that number should grow to around 600 employees.

The expansion announcement comes almost a year after German steel manufacturer Thyssen Krupp announced plans to built a large manufacturing facility a little further north on Highway 43 in the community of Calvert.

With these two facilities and other business nearby, we envision development and growth to occur in North Mobile County along the Highway 158 corridor towards the Schillinger Road extension. This would include the towns of Saraland, Semmes, and Wilmer.

Here is the press release from SSAB - Press Release.

Here is link to local story - WKRG TV SSAB story