Service Centers
February 15, 2018
Union Partners Joins Big River on Arkansas Campus
Written by Tim Triplett
Union Partners announced plans today to build a new steel processing facility on the Osceola, Ark., campus of Big River Steel. The operations will be located directly adjacent to Big River’s Flex Mill and will include both slitting and multi-blanking lines in a new build-to-suit facility expandable to 258,000 square feet. Construction will be on an accelerated schedule with a formal groundbreaking in the first quarter of 2018.
Union Partners will install the latest innovations in technology and processes to enable real-time collaboration between their new operations and Big River Steel. The mill-grade equipment was selected to service the needs of Big River and its customers now and into the future, including the specific needs of the automotive industry, which both companies are targeting. Planned expansions are already designed to seamlessly meet future needs as product development continues at the Big River mill that began producing steel just over a year ago.
