Mark Millett: 'Sustaining our culture is sacrosanct'

Today, almost four decades since trading-in his skis to join then mini-mill upstart Nucor Corp, Millett has proven markedly adept at not only applying his metallurgical expertise to real-world environments, but managing a measured and deliberate approach over the past five-plus-years to growing the...

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Published inMetal Bulletin pp. 21 - 27
Main Author Isenberg-O'Loughlin, Jo
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Fastmarkets 01.06.2018
Subjects
Appointments & personnel changes
Chief executive officers
Engineers
Leadership
Metallurgy
Roman civilization
Scrap
Steel industry
Supply chains
North Carolina
Indiana
United Kingdom > UK
United States > US
England
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Summary:Today, almost four decades since trading-in his skis to join then mini-mill upstart Nucor Corp, Millett has proven markedly adept at not only applying his metallurgical expertise to real-world environments, but managing a measured and deliberate approach over the past five-plus-years to growing the company that he co-founded with fellow Nucor alumni Keith Busse and Richard "Dick" Teets some twenty-five years ago. Compare and contrast When pressed to describe the differences in his versus Busse's leadership style, Millett is quick to point to the quantum changes in the size, complexity and day-to-day operational dynamics of SDI over the past decade or so. Step-by-step Maintaining stability across an enterprise that has grown from a single, flat-rolled mill in Butler, Indiana to a veritable industrial powerhouse sporting a total annual flat-rolled steel shipping capacity of12.4 million tons - counting the agreement announced only weeks ago to acquire Companhia Siderurgica Nacional LLC (Heartland), from CSN Steel S.L.U. - is no small chore. Today, with facilities located throughout Mexico and the US, SDI is one of the country's largest steel producers and metal recyclers. Besides serving the hot-rolled, cold-rolled, coated sheet, structural beams and shapes, rail, engineered special bar quality (SBQ), cold-finished, merchant bar, specialty sections and steel joists and deck markets, the company produces pig iron and processes and sells ferrous and non-ferrous scrap.
ISSN:0026-0533