Editing SSAB (section)

=== North America ===
[[File:Jerry Carl visits SSAB - May 2021 02.jpg|thumb|Congressmember [[Jerry Carl]] visiting SSAB in [[Axis, Alabama]], in 2021]]
IPSCO Inc. began as Prairie Pipe Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in [[Regina, Saskatchewan]] in 1956, changing its name to Interprovincial Steel and Pipe Corporation, Ltd. in 1960 and IPSCO, Inc. in 1984;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/companies/ipsco|title=Company Profile -IPSCO|publisher=LinkedIn|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref><ref name=insider/> the company would later be purchased by SSAB, and is the origin of SSAB's operations in the region. All SSAB operations in North America are now operated as SSAB Americas.<ref name=COC>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZlnQissYIgC&pg=SL252-PA15|title=Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from China, Invs. 701-TA-463 and 731-TA-1156-1159 (Preliminary)|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=9781457816833|via=Google Books}}</ref>

As of 2000, IPSCO had used [[mini mill]]s to produce [[flat-rolled steel]] for 40 years.<ref name=largest>{{cite news|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/manufacturing/primary-metal-mfg-iron-steel/6479082-1.html|title=IPSCO Steel (Alabama) Construction Proceeds on Schedule; World's Largest Mill Stands Set in Place|work=[[Business Wire]]|date=8 May 2000|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref> Late in 2001, the company officially opened an [[Axis, Alabama]], mill (in the [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]] area), with a capacity of 1,250,000 tonnes,. The $US425&nbsp;million [[rolling mill]],<ref name=insider>{{cite news|url=http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/pwatch/pw011210.htm|title=IPSCO Steel Officially Opens $425 Million Alabama Mini-Mill|work=siteselection.com|date=10 December 2001}}</ref> with mill stand housings believed to be the largest one-piece cast mill housings in the world at 350 tons each,<ref name=largest/> uses [[scrap steel]] to produce discrete plate and coiled hot rolled plate. [[Montpelier, Iowa]] had a similar facility which began operations in 1997, but this one would serve the [[Gulf coast]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/economy-economic-indicators/economic/6948996-1.html|title=IPSCO Inc. – Subsidiary Selects Site for State-of-the-Art Steelworks|work=[[Business Wire]]|date=22 December 1998|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref><ref name=muscatine>{{cite news|url=http://www.muscatinejournal.com/news/local/article_b5986f9d-e7a4-517b-94b0-3b39a604119b.html|title=IPSCO plans multi-million dollar plant|work=[[Muscatine Journal]]|date=8 April 2008|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref> On 21 October 2008, SSAB announced a $US460&nbsp;million expansion of the Axis mill to be completed in 2011. The mill already had 400 employees and 350 contractors.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.al.com/news/press-register/metro.ssf?/base/news/1224681658317470.xml&coll=3|title=SSAB steel mill in Axis, Ala., to expand by $460m|last=Amy|first=Jeff|work=[[Press-Register]]|date=22 October 2008|access-date=29 June 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608231440/http://www.al.com/news/press-register/metro.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews%2F1224681658317470.xml&coll=3|archive-date=8 June 2011}}</ref>

In May 2007, a deal to acquire IPSCO for $US7.7&nbsp;billion was announced.<ref name=COC /> At the time, IPSCO's annual production was 4.3&nbsp;million tonnes, with four steel mills and eleven pipe mills.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL2916600320070529|title=Sweden's SSAB wants to sell Ipsco tube unit|work=[[Reuters]]|date=30 May 2007|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref> On 17 July 2008, SSAB announced the completion of the deal. John Tulloch succeeded the retiring David Sutherland as IPSCO president and became an executive vice president of SSAB.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/SSAB-Successfully-Completes-Acquisition-of-IPSCO-525831|title=SSAB Successfully Completes Acquisition of IPSCO|work=ThomasNet|date=17 July 2007|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref>

On 17 March 2008, [[Evraz Group|Evraz Group SA]] announced it would buy SSAB's Canada pipe and plate business and the [[Tube (fluid conveyance)|steel tube]] business of the American IPSCO unit for $US4.3&nbsp;billion after steel prices rose and the dollar fell. Evraz also planned to sell some of the American assets for $US1.7&nbsp;billion to [[OAO TMK]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ca.all-biz.info/news/index.php?newsid=2071|title=Evraz Agrees to Buy SSAB Units for $4.03 Billion|work=AllBiz|date=17 March 2008|accessdate=25 May 2010|archive-date=15 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415225747/http://www.ca.all-biz.info/news/index.php?newsid=2071|url-status=dead}}</ref> IPSCO had 4300 employees, with 70% of its operation in the United States and 30% in Canada.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2008-03-14-russia-evraz_N.htm|title=Russian steel maker Evraz grows in North America|work=[[USA Today]]|date=14 March 2008|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref>

After the sale, SSAB changed the name of its North American operation to SSAB North American Division (NAD), then later to SSAB Americas; headquarters stayed in [[Lisle, Illinois]], USA. Included in this division were steel operations in Mobile and Montpelier, and cut-to-length lines in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]] and [[Houston]], Texas; and [[Toronto]], Canada. David Britten succeeded Tulloch as president. Paul Wilson, with 36 years of industry experience, ten of those with SSAB including management of Mobile's steel operation, became the vice president in charge of the American steel operations.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://steelnews.com/Ipsco/tabid/36/Cat/76/Doc/2764/Default.aspx|title=SSAB Rolls out New Name, New Leadership for North American Operations|work=steelnews.com|date=16 June 2008|accessdate=16 May 2010}}</ref> In 2018 the SSAB Americas division relocated its headquarters to Mobile, Alabama.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mynbc15.com/news/local/ssab-steel-company-to-locate-head-office-to-mobile|title=SSAB steel company to relocate head office to Mobile|first=Keith|last=Lane|date=19 October 2017}}</ref>